NOTES FOR FARMERS. NOTES FOR FARMERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5697, 16 October 1896, Page 4

NOTES FOR FARMERS.

The country Las dried very rapidly during the last few days, and there is now very little land too wet for working-. In fact, the total area of land on which' seed was spoiled by the wet was comparatively small. Wheat is still being sown, the prospectß of a market being found in Aiistralia having again improved owing to the heat wave whioh has followed the showers of the end of last, month Dry sheep are beingr ehorn on the farms, and the hill lambing i 8 progressing favourably. The new wheat in England and France is reported to be of excellent quality a very heavy sample, and in condition leaves nothing .to be desired. Other parts of Europe have not . supplied such good samples. . Tho Hungarian Minister of Agriculture, estimates the yield of the world's wheat crops this year at 253,593,750<ii-s, to which the countries with an export surplus con-, tribute 190,093,750qr5, and the countries having a deficit to be covered by imports OSiSOO.OOOqrs. He also raises the total crop of wheat of 1805 from 290 ) 950,000qr5, as previously calculated, to 300,953,125qr5. In like manner this year's totttl 61'Gp" of rye* is estimated at 147,760,000c|rs of, which 9G,937,500<ir8 aW Valsed in countries with an export irirpius, and 48,812:500qrs in couhtiles having to make good a deßcit by Mpfoi-te. The total rye crop of 1895 is stoted to have been 165,000,000qr5. The 'Portland Oregonian, of August 6, estimates the .loss to the wheat crop of Eastern Oregon and Washington from the preceding few days of hot winds at 25 per cent. A Canadian exchange states that wheat grown in rows about two feet, apart and thoroughly cultivated like other hoed crops will yield enormously, sometimes as much as eighty or a hundred bushels, to the acre.