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Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6067, 28 September 1894, Page 3

The United States Department of Agrioulture has issued a summary, made from estimates of 25,000 farmers of the west and north west and of 4000 experts of the department, on the cost of growing wheati The average ooet per aore for the region covered is 45s Bd, while the average for Wisconsin is almost 5s higher, or 60j 2d. Ground rent is the heaviest single item, and is estimated at nearly 12s 6d per aore. The prinoipal items of cost have remained about normal during the past four or five years, being slightly higher where anj- change is noted, owing to increase of cost of labour during the prosperous times from 1890 to 1893. Duriog that period, howsver, the price of wheat fell nearly one-half. As a result, either wheat production mutt be restricted or a large part of it must be done at a !oea. Phil Bobinsonbas teen Hampetead Heath for the first time, and describes his yiiit with charming enthusiasm m the Contemporary. 5 It reminded him of the Deleotable mountain. It gave him, he save, ' one of the finest views m the whole of tbia round world of oars. I have seen more of its surface than most men, but I cannot remember any view to beat it.' With Parliament Hill and Highgate risiDg before him,, and London with Bfc Paul's m view stretching away to the right he exclaims : — ' What is the Bay of Naples, with its bitter, relentless, gentian blue overheod, and its sun* f soorched, dusty and grasßless ground beneath, . compared to this view from Hampitead Heath . b W here else can you find such Batif ying beauty ? 1 Not m Lisbon as seen from the river, cor m Bydney harbour, nor m Southern California, nor anywhere else, not even m Nature's moit favoured island— New Zealand. There is nothing, I believe, like it anywhere to captivate and omfort both the eye Bnd mind at once.'