GLENKENICH.

Otago Witness, Issue 1581, 4 March 1882, Page 13

GLENKENICH.

(FEOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) February 28th.

Harvesting is now general throughout the district, and the crops, .which are quite free from dust and smut, promise a fair average. So far the weather has been all that could oe desired for harvesting, and should it continue fine for a week or so a good deal of the crop will be in the stook. Mr Logan, of Greenvale Station, has already a quantity of wheat in the stack. This crop has been raised from seed imported from Oamaru, and judging the very satisfactory results obtained, a good many of our farmers will next season try to secure seed from the Oamaru district. There can be no doubt that the change is a good one. The root crops, generally speaking, promise fairly, with the exception of turnips, which, in most cases, are a total failure. Our farmers seem fully alive to the advantages of labour-saving machines. This year nearly a dozen reapers and binders have been imported into the district, which is admirably adapted for these machines, owing to the level nature of the ground. It may be worthy of mention that Mr Hugh Begg, of Woodview Farm, North Glenkenich, who was one of the first to fetch a reaper and binder into the district, has purchased the M'Cormack that tied with the Wood's machine in the recent contest at Mr Shand's Abbotsford Farm, Taieri. Mr Mulligan, of Crookston, another enterprising farmer, has secured the latter machine, so that both are now in the Tapanui district. It will be cheering news for our farmers, and also those of other districts, to learn that the first parcel of oats threshed in the district this year nas been sold at the rate of 2s per bushel. The oats wore grown on the farm of Mr Edwards, and were sold to Mr Patterson, the well-known Tapanui oatmeal-miller.