CANTERBURY AGRICULTURE
February 8,
The rains which have fa'len heavily, though intermittently, during the lsot eight d?.ys have st"pped threshing and stacking, and may k<ive done some damage to g'-aia iv th,) fields and in i W'k. ths sboitn<-ss cf ths straw this season rendoriug is in suiiiy ca°es impossible to bnild good stacks. Great good ha.3 been done to gi-3.i*e, both pasture and stubble, and to roots. The rnoifcture will also enable ploughing to progiesp, and wll bring on the catch crops that h«.va already been sown, so thsvi; pros-y-ic'n are much improved. Tfce dvra^nd for btore sheep i 3 alieady beginning, but so much grass and othee fodder 'have been totally destroyed that fmtnerfe' ff qnirements will not 1c ao le-r^fc as usual. Tho threshing results vv 'y fei'tallf, '•ODie boiug very disp.ppoinbing «vnd others fe^uiitl a^ricipatious. Moat authort-lu-s cilcu'at. 1 - Hi-<ja a 17 or 18 lu^hel average.
ChristcLureh milleis (says the Press) are not prepared to g've more than 3s 6d per bushel for vheat at country B ! a'-ion9, but growers sre still holding out for 4 a .
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Otago Witness, Issue 2293, 10 February 1898, Page 26
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181CANTERBURY AGRICULTURE Otago Witness, Issue 2293, 10 February 1898, Page 26
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