SOUTHLAND AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) April 12.
Harvest work was hindered a good deal last week by wet weather. The most of the crop is still in the stook (although a few farmers in a number of districts have finished stooking and threshing), and there is still a considerable area of both oats and wheat to be cut. There cannot be any doubt but that a good deal of the latter is frosted, the white heads and green stems giving indications thereof, and it has been asserted that a small portion of the o&fc crop growing on flats is frosted also. Five or six weeko ago I expressed the opinion that the yield of oats would probably be about 10 bushels an acre below the average of a numbar of our best seasons, and I am sorry to have to record that that estimate will probably prove correct. Threshing has been in progress during the part fortnight, and the yield has been found very disappointing on good and mediumclass land alike, much less than farmers estimated, judging from the fairly large amount of straw. There is a probability of there being a large quantity of the oats discoloured this season. Local millers are buying sparrowbill oats at Is lid per bushel. Some of the out crop will not ripen, and a much larger quantity than usual will have to be cut for chaff.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2302, 14 April 1898, Page 25
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