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Mr Morit29on, of Moritzson and Hopkin, Dunedin, who has just returned from his periodical trip to Banks Peninsula, where he visited every bay, states that the cocksfoot crop for 1894 is a miserable' failure in colour, weight, cleanliness and quantity, there being, roughly speaking, some 20,000 sacks short of the usual prolific crops for which Banks Peninsula is so famous, a little over 20,000 sacks being only saved this season. Threshing still continues, but it is constantly interrupted by rains and fogs. For the last six years Mr Moritzson has never experienced such a season as the 1894 one. On the higher levels nothing but fog is growing, and some 3000 acres were not fit for cutting. The seed, having experienced so much rain, was dark while standing. Prices, notwithstanding these defects, will rule high, as crops are also short in the North Island. The season, Mr Moritzson believes, will open at from 3Jd to 4Jd, and that June or July should see a rise in price of from 4d to 5d for best machined.— Pres^.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2086, 15 February 1894, Page 23
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