KAKAHU.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2919, 31 January 1884, Page 6

KAKAHU.

A wet spring followed by nn mi usually moist summer lias not been at all favorable to land of the nature of the Kaks.hu Flat. Tbe ■oil has an iron-bound clay ■iubeoil, and it requires a special season to produce good cropa. With a dry winter and iipring, and a damp summer, this land will prow cereals, as well asany m the diatriot ; and therefore tbe crops growing thia year are not to bo taken as a criterion of what the aoil will produce under suitable circumstances. There are nevertheless come very good crops to be seen, but they an chiefly on patches of noil of a different nature from that forming the balk of the flit. Among some of thoao noticed viero tbe Messrs Allan's oats close to the foot of the downs, at the head of tbe flat. These ate looking verj well, aa is also a paddock of wheat on the i game farm. Lower down, on the bank of the [ Hae-hae-te-moana, Mr Job Karl lias a sploadid paddook of red wheat, which should /go fully thirty-five bushels tj thu ncre. Tho toil at this point is rich and dry, and it growa good crops m almost any saaaon. Messrs Brace and Holwell have n Urge extent of land under wheat and oifce, but the ovop is generally rath or light. On the rich loamy deposits on tho bank of the luikahu river »ro some heavy fielda of both whent and oats, Mr B. Sharp's oats being a splendid crop, and Mr J. Hay also baf a splendid paddock of wheat. In the Kakabu Valley, above Hilton, several blocks of wheat and oats are to be ejeen on the spurs of the downa running- down to the river. On tho fine stretch ol' rolling downs between Hilton and the Waitohi Flat, there is not much crop to be seen. On tho Arowhenua estate no oropping has bsen done, all the land being either m grass or turnips. Messrs Oochrane and Busboll haro a fine block of wheat and oats, on land formorlv part of the Arowhenua estate, the wheat being above the average. On tho lower half of the downa between the Waitohi sohoolliouse and tbe Kak»bu road, are several bloolia of wheat and oats. A good deal of ryo grass has, been aaved on different parts of the downs this year, and for the most purl; is being put through the threshing machine from , the stooV, no less than three machines being tit work. Very little hay hao buen aeoured this year m any part of the district yet visited, and this little m chiefly ryo grass cut late for seed aa well aa hay.