FEEDING OUT FODDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 14

FEEDING OUT FODDER.

matamata farmers worried.

Usually at this period of the summer the country around Matamata is the envy of farmers travelling on the Rotorua line, but this season it is suffering in common with other dairying districts. Pastures are drying up and t the milk supply is dropping alarmingly. Cattle are being given winter feed in order to prevent the downward trend milk yield as far as possible, (toing down by leaps and bounds," is the way the manager of one of the largest factories in the district described the supply, and he said this oould be applied to all the factories. Regarding cheese, he said the annual returns might still be as high as last year if rain came soon, as prices were holding well. Those farmers who had paspalum were not in such a bad position as others, as, even if it was used up now, it would come again directly rain fell. If, however, the dry spell lasted another month, the outlook would be gloomy indeed. There has been no rain to speak of in the Matamata district since Christmas Eve.