The settlers of this district owe a debt of gratitude to Mr John James for his euterpcise in importing his improved thresher and combine. This is the first machine of the kind that has ever come into the district, and in consequence very little crop ping has up to the present been done as the settlers had no chance of get ting their crops threshed, The first advantage of having an up-to-date thresher will be that farmers will be able to provide themselves with plenty of good straw for bedding pur poses. We saw the machine at work yesterday afternoon threshing a couple of stacks of barley on Mr Troup’s section near the Manawatu, river. The machine is by Clayton and Bhuttleworth, of Lincoln, Eng land, and does splendid work. While . our reporter watched operations yea? terday over 100 bughpfa WP?P thresh ed in ftn howr*. M* Troup’s section that was cropped is only a small one —spme sevep acres ip extent—but it speaks well foe its fertility when the result for this year is something over 40 bushels to the acre. And the quality of the gram must be first Class, far it is bright and very herd. Mr James' machine, after threshing several stacks ip tfie district, will be taken again to Pfthiatua, Ekstahuna, and Alfredfan districts,

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