BANGITATA.

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

BANGITATA.

The fanners living on the Bangitata say this is ths b.»t year for them they have known since they have beun m the district. The land is chiefly a light sandy loam, and a moist season has made tho crops and grasß grow luxuriantly. Crossing the uoDth branch of the Bnngitata and taking the main road which runs through the islaid, the first crop met with is that of Mr 11. Grainger, who has tome ISO acres of wheat and onto. The wheat is chiefly whita pearl, and one small pa<ido;k clots (o the road is a Tery' ; fair crop. Another paddock off the road' is looking splendid, and will turn out well. Mr Bnell has some 190 acres m wheat and oats. One |«ddock of toacin wheat he estimates will yinld fully thirty-five bushels. A binder was at work here m a field of very good Canadian oats. Mr Buiton is cropping about 200 aiires, three-fourths of which it wheat and thu balance onto. The wheat will turn ont well, one small paddeck of tuscac being quito equal m promise to any grown oc the heavier iwamp land along the beach. This crop, however, Mr Buxton intends, to cat gre<m :ior chaff, tho straw being very long and fine. A paddock of oats only wantfi a few days' fine weathor to ripen it. Mr W. Kennedy has part of his farm under orop. chiefly oats. On this farm is toe only pieoo of barley Been on the island, but it is not very good. There are other crops on the inland than tboso atore mentioned, one paddock of oats and wheat between Ml? Kennedy's farm and the nort'i branch of tbe river being especially wort'iy of mention. Mr Totton hai about two hundred acres m wheat and oatli on the islund bearing his name. This orop h looking well sad should yield very good returns. On tbe south bank of thu Bangitata river, below the railway lino, aro a few good field* of wheat and oats. Two small lots of oatt, Canadian and Tartarian reupectively, one on either side of the old Main South Boad, ara very heavy end somewhat laid. A piece of land undnr cultivation rum from the Star of the South Hotel for a dutnnce of about five miles along tbe river bank m the direction of the bills, wit a more or less crop on it all the way. There are tome good paddocks of reel chaff wheat at the lower end, but bighor up the land is poorer, and the crops are poorer with it. Ou the plain between the Kangitata and Orari rivers, from Creek Station to Peel Forest, a large extent of land m ander crip. The largest blpci: is on Mr Donniutoun'a estat),, and is m tbe hands of croppers. There ijir some good patches of wheat and oats alio nearer to I'eel IToreit. A few fields uf turnips on the plaint are looking very well, though Isite.