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Crop ReportThe year of 1920 has been a year of extremes so far as
the weather was concerned, the result was that some crops were very good others
very bad. Pastures & roots were on the whole very good. The hay crop was
heavy but most of it was completely wasted & when stacked was of little
more value than straw. Wheat was very poor. Barley fair, oats very light. The
sowing period extended over three months. Some barley was sown in February
& oats the last week in May. We did not sow any corn in April the land
being too wet the whole of the month. Turnips are very good in this district
but not so good in some places inland. The weather during harvest was very bad.
From start to finish we were eight weeks, some farmers who started sooner were
ten weeks or more. Prices are lower for oats & Barley but higher for
milling wheat. The wheat yield on our own farm was only three qrs per
acre & the quality very poor, on some farms only about 2 qrs.
Prices were as
follows
Wheat. Gov price
for wheat fit for flour. 95/-
| Barley |
Oct £5. to £5.10.0 |
Nov £4 to £5 |
Dec £2/10 to
£4 |
| Oats |
-//- £3 |
-//- £2.10.0 |
-//- 38/- to 45/- |
Dec 30th Wheat down to 80/- per qr.
Feeding cakes are plentiful and much lower in price. Best cotton cake £14.
Dec 30th. Best cotton
cake £11. 10. 0 Bombay £8. 0. 0.
Artificial manures are to be reduced in
price.
Prices for stock are higher than ever especially for good
stuff.
Breeding ewes & shearlings good £9 to £11. Fat lambs to £8.
Fat calves to £15.
Dec. The prices for all kinds of live stock are tending
downwards. |
