HARVEST PROSPECTS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 3432, 30 December 1885, Page 2

HARVEST PROSPECTS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

- is feared (says the Adelaide correspondent of the Argus) that the wheat crop whioh is now being reaped will not average more than three bushels per aore. : A vast area of land will not be reaped at all, thp seed never having shown above ground. From another extensive area probably enough wheat will be gathered to furnish seed and food for the ensuing year. A considerable extent of country that promised well for a good crop of wheat has been out for hay, the high prioe of fodder and the fear of red. runt having contributed to this deoision. From some favored spots where ulie rainfall has been more bountiful, or where a better system of cultivation has been adopted, crops of from 8 to 30 bushels per acre are being reaped. At Beefabres for instance, swhere the rainfall during the growing ■season did not exceed 12., but whero deep ploughing was practised, after a good crop of rape had been obtained from -the land, 30 bushels of wheat per acre are

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