A POOR HARVEST.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12097, 15 March 1910, Page 5

A POOR HARVEST.

(Special to Herald.) Cm^JSTCHCRCHi, this day. . Good .progiiess is .beiiv^, made witli^: t/lu*esliing m North Canterbury, but sutlisfactcuy returns . as regards b»th quan-' and quality are. tlie exception. .Imperfectly developed grain is very pom-, ftion, and. crops wjiosebullc of stluw and size of heads promised -50 1 to 60 bushels per acre are m many ctises yielding only half the expected quantity. Threshing lriachinos are m consequenco liaving a poor season , an d some >vi 1 1 be lai d mp much earlier than usual.. The absence of panme samples, and the offering of much weathered grain, are haying a. depressing effect on. the. market,- and business is not done 'without muich nego'tia,Owing to tho . care that is exercised: m Uie grading at Lyttelton, and the rejections reported. -'buyers have t:i examine tlie samiples offered them 'most' carefully, and disnl« .are seldom made lintil se]>arato samples from the lots m each field are suibmilted. The condition of the ]K>tato crops Ls giving cause for anxiety, "and apparently only those tlsi.ithaA'e been liepeatedly sprayed have escaped the blight, iln some cases the crops are coriipletely rotten.