TAPANUI.

Otago Witness, Issue 1583, 25 March 1882, Page 13

TAPANUI.

(prom a correspondent.)

Tho Tapanui district is a far more important agricultural centre than is genorally supposed. It comprises the agricultural land between Waipahi and Tapanui, tho Glenkenich, Greenvale, Kelso, Dunrobin, and Crookston districts.

The crops everywhere are looking well ; the farmers are in the middle of harvest work ; tho weather has been almost perfect so far ; and tlie condition of the grain excellent— quite equal, in fact, to any grown in tho_ North, while the yield this season is considerably larger. Altogether from this district it is roughly estimated that the yield will be from 200,000 to 300,000 bushels of grain. I have visited personally the Crookston district, and was much struck with the heavy crops of grain and the rich grass paddocks of Messrs James and Thomas, Sims, Messrs Cullen Bros,, Mr William Milligan, Reid and Fleming, ' Messrs Wm, Lusk.A, M'Gregor, Norman Mathieson, George and "Walter Sims, Jacob Shearing, James and Charles M'Donald, Laverty Bros., Adam Swan, John O'Brien, and others, On some of the properties belonging to the gentlemen named above the proportion of wheat grown this season is large and of the very finest quality. Mr Milligan has a paddock of white velvet wheat which for yield and quality could hardly be surpassed.