USEFUL HINTS.
Twenty Years in the Price of Corn. "~lp 1859 corn was worth 70 cents a bushel; and the price did not vary much until 1864, when it went up to 1.10 followed by the remarkably high price of 1.75 dols the next year (I 860). -1 A: fall to 85 cents came the next year, and a rise. to 1,10 during the .two sueceding years (1867-’6B). Since this tiine! there has been a gradual fall to . 40 cents, the price for last year. In 1 187 a there was an exception in a rise ,°f 10 cents (85) followed by a fall of 25 cents (60) for the next year. It is 1 to’be seen that during all tub 20 years 1 torn was never so low as at the present . time. ■
i ! Pastures. The droppings of the animals on the pastures should be scattered and spread. This not only manures the field, but prevents injury to; the spots covered with droppings. A dressing of plaster over, the pasture ■ will be useful, sweetening the fouled ' Spots and so avoiding the unequal , -character of the surface caused by the neglect of; cattle to eat down the • herbage in otherwise distasteful places.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2115, 2 January 1880, Page 3
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