26 JULY 1930, Page 15

AN EARLY HARVEST.

Harvest has begun, and is becoming general in the south. Dry days have hurried the ripening of the grain and have shortened the straw, at any rate of the oats, which are the first to fall. A healthy, but rather light harvest is expected. The hay is a "bumper "crop, but for those who wish to sell it, absurdly cheap ; and so far there is little sign that any of the cereals

Will be worth a remunerative price. W. BEACLI