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Fall Seeding. 

 Eather less than the usual amount of fall seeding has been 

 done owing to the dry weather, which prevented ploughing 

 and rendered uncertain the germination of the seed. Much 

 seed has come up since the rains which has lain in the ground 

 for several weeks, and it is thought that now the drought is 

 broken enousrh seeding will be done to bring the amount 

 up to the usual average. Seeding already done is late and 

 the condition rather poor than otherwise, but the late rains 

 have started it and the prospect is that with a fair amount 

 of rain the condition will continue to improve. 



Onions. 



Onions are as a rule a light crop, though some speak of them 

 as average. The principal, in fact almost the only draw- 

 back, has been the severe drought. This has caused blight 

 in many cases, and where it has not resulted in blight, the 

 crop has been materially reduced. Very little complaint is 

 made of maggots or other insects. 



Potatoes. 

 Potatoes are generally considerably less than an average 

 crop, though the yield appears to be somewhat better than 

 was expected a month ago. Reports of average yields are 

 by no means rare and some even speak of the crop as good. 

 In the western and south-eastern sections of the State the 

 condition falls far short of that in other sections. For the 

 State as a whole there is probably a three-fourths crop and 

 possibly more. The quality is almost universally spoken 

 of as good, there being very few complaints of rot or scab. 

 The cooking qualities of the crop are also well spoken of. 



Root Crops. 

 Root crops hardly promise to be more than fair, though 

 they have shown marked improvement since the late rains. 

 Turnips are particularly poor, there being considerable com- 

 plaint of failure to come up and small size. Most corre- 

 spondents state that abundant rains will do much to improve 

 the root crops. 



