THE LEVELS PLAINS.

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

THE LEVELS PLAINS.

A moist ueason hai suited tbu dry levels Plains, consequently toe crops on tbe whole are looking well. The racesourto reserve is «o«n with tucan wheat, nnd. looks remarkably veil. Mr James Stevenson, tbe lessee of thu reserve, bat alsc a small field of the game variety, which (fives promiso of a good yield. Several fields of toucan and red chaff wheat, on the opposite side of tho main rood, are very healthy looking, and should give good returns. Mi- Stevenson hat, besidoi, a very strong and healthy crop of beans, m a paddock adjoining the road, at the opposite and of which, on ground that grew a crop of Aax lint year, iB a vary heavy patch of oat«. There are several several lota of oat* m stook m tbe centre of the plains,, and a fW fio« days will nee reapers at work, tho oat crops hero as a rule do not. seem to hare done so well as tbe wheat. la most; cases they are short m the straw, bat th«y ar» fairly well beaded. Towards tho upper ond at the plains, however, the ai;raw is longer, ;*nd the crops we fairly heavy. Mr Quinn, of Teuiuko, has a very even paddock of wheat, about a hundred acres m extent, wbi;b, with ten days' or a fortnight's fine weather, should be ready for tbe bindo;. It is about the earliost looking wheat crap m tin district, though around it are sereral almost rjs forward. A strip of wheat extends frjm tlio craning o£ tho Opibi river at Kerryto'rn nearly to thu main road at Aronhonua. This piece of land is richer than the reit of <b» plums, being n silt deposit from tbe overflowing of tho river, and therefore the wboat is rery much longer m the straw than it is towards the Washdyke. One paddock on thi< liter bank at tbe crossing is almost tqpal to l.hose on the Seadown estate, and tbe otheis look very well. Taking ths crops altogether on tbe Levels Plains, th«y are looking quite at well a* ia any former year, and only lino weather is now needed to (triable the owners to etauto a good and profitable Barrett.