MILFORD.

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

MILFORD.

There fc not muuh of Ihe liirge extent of bear/ swamp land lying between Temuka and Milford adder crop this ye jr. Thi» it one of the beat pieces of limd m South, Canterbury for producing heavy yield* ot either grain or roots. It i» moiitly down m grim tiiia year. Perliaps m tome ie»po<ti it U bettor •o, for tia wet ititaon wouH bare been against grain oropi on «neb land, There are a. few email paddock*, of wheat and barley on tbe Swamp road near the Xenraka Dairy Factory, cne paddock boicg very heavy m the straw, ond auniewliat laid by tbe wind and taia of Monday night. TbaJ

burley ib only moderate, patchn* of it having parishes m the wet hollows.' On tlio bank of tlie Opihi, below Greenhaj es, there are some good paddocks of grain. The outs generally are. Very heavy, and the wheiit ie looking well ; a few small lotn of barley, however, are light. JMr ; Dickinson, of the Milfora Mill, has a very good p&dclook of barley, about tho beit m t'le district. Noar the mouth of tho Opihi the Messrs Woodhead have same two hundred acres of crops, chiefly whct.t. The winter sown wheat i«i looking the best, the land being too wet m the spring to give the wheat then sown a good ohance. Messrs. WareiDg Bros, were' rather unlucky this year, having had to plough m lone wheat that had failed m the swamp, and tow the land m turnips. A blight which mad«> its appearance m the Milford district some three yeiirs ago, has again shown itself: m somo of their wheat. On the Kiversles, Estate them is a large extent of wheat sown, chiefly on land either cropped or owned by settlors m tbe neighborhood. On this estate are some splendid paddocks of turnips, which are the moat forward of any I have yet sesn. On tho light shingle ridge rumiDg parallel with Beach road Messrs Mathews and Treaise have one or two paddookii of wheat. A fow small patches are rather light, the rert being very good. MrHayhnrst on tho same side of the road ha* so mo crop, tbe oats being almost ready for cutting. He also has a field of linseec!, the stalks of which are upwards of three feet high. Mr J. Guild, Trevenna, hap a large area under crop, both wheat and oats. As usual on this line farm, tho crops ere magnificent. One puddock of 'Fußcnn wheat looks splendid, and is, as the owner remarked, quite heavy enough for anything. The oats are also vnry hravy, and will turn out veil. There are about twenty aores m beans, wbioh are veiy strong and healthy. :Cn a rather light crop of barley two binders were about to start work on Thursday morning. In the Ohapi swamp is a block of some six| hundred acres of wheat and oats. The wheat, tnsean arid red cliaff, is very heavy, but m a few placla is somewhat choked with rank grass and ihtstles. The oats are also very good. The-ie crops am very backward, and need soma flue weather to bring them on. Messrs Austin's md Conolly'a crops, adjoining this block, ire above the average, and some of the hitter's oats are ready for cutting. The crops m a rule m the Milford distriot are all very Into, and fine seasonable weather is much needed to mature them.