Harvest Prospects in Canterbury.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1788, 29 January 1886, Page 3

Harvest Prospects in Canterbury.

SMudugthe erop proapeota in Canterbury the Christchurch Prase eayi There is an wtfae absence of blights or mat. Tba wheat is ripening moat evenly, eed the erop will, •wing to the feet that the straw i« of medium length be harvested without any extra labor. The spring sewn wheats have some along the bait, foe the sample reason that those town in y ll wined from heavy rain and frost. It yet rawaias to bo shown bow aaeoaas may be attained by sowing spring wheat on ■anega whereon the previous antaam wheat baa been damaged. All round tha production el the wheal amp is at the average of the east five yearn. The growth of onto has been mif gloat, apt baity, planted when (hat

crop thrives best, has been raided wi(h a coat degree of certainty and capital rtsu.ts. The beaus, still green, promise an average crop. Potatoes have not succeeded on the plaint:, but in favored localities there wiil be a considerable surplus for export. Everywhere, except in tbe Oxford riding, tbe whole of the oat crop is being got in. many persons cutting somewhat on the green side, probably through fear of tire, and, fur another reason, to get the stubbles, where some teed might be expected alter the slightest rain. Upon tbe plains the wheat crops are assuming their rich golden colour ; ia other parts they are quite green and still growing. With other crops of the way, there will be no delay in saving the wheat from tbe effects of nor'-wester#, as next week will see much of it cut, and a continuance of present weather will result in the stocking being all finished by the end of tbe month.