HARVEST HOME

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16668, 25 February 1922, Page 9

HARVEST HOME

CANTERBURY’S GOLDEN GRAIN, Just now. North Canterbury presents a series of pictures of harvest homes. From the Ashley to- the M aipara, from Mount Grey Downs to the sea, the countryside is dotted thick with stacks. Where there are no stacks there are the heaps of straw left by the threshing mills. Everywhere there are cleared paddocks of glinting golden stubble, some already ringed and marked by the plough. Ear on the hillside rises the smoke of a traction engine, driving some mill whose busy hum is carried on the warm breeze. The drays caring the sheaves to the mill lend the requisite touch of life to the picture. From around and up the Omihi \ alley. also, come reports of more crop this rear than ever before. The Glenmark Settlement at Waipara in particular has obtained good results from land which was virgin as far as the plough ia concerned. Once beyond the We lea Pass the valleys anil flats of Waikari present a picture which might well be called “ Wheat.” Around the encircling bills are acres and acres—one could almost say miles and miles -of wheat paddocks. Some show the bare stubble and the neat and tidy stack ; others, the straw, showing that here the threshing plant has been ; others, again, the crowded stooks wait mg lor the mill; still others the busv teams carting into the stacks. Further on, Ha warden and Woodgrove give eloquent- testimonies to the work of man and the fertility of the soil From Culverden and Waiau comes truck upon truck of grain ; indeed, every wayside station is now busily engaged in sending away its conosignment | t-6 swell the grand total of Canterbury’s prosperity. j !