RAIN TOO LATE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 April 1939, Page 4

RAIN TOO LATE

o NOT MUCH BENEFIT TO FARMS DROP IN PRODUCTION The rain ha s come, but it is too •'ate to help product : on much or to stimulate the growth of winter feed to any great extent., This seems to be the general opinion of farmers who say that the colder nights which will follow will prevent growth. The Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Co. setimates that produrt'on is; about 15 per cent down over the season. Quite a number of farmers have ceas "d to supp v v the facto»*v, and a num her especially f-om Ga'atea, have *eft their farms and taken outside work. The-e are manv oo«t splitting round Te Whait'. EarTv in Mav cremi co'lection wiU begin every other dav. It is stated that the Ooourino Dairy Factory's production is down 22 per a very serious decline. One effect of rain will be the interruption of maize piek'ng which has begun much earlier t N an usual. T t is st-ited that crops generally arc very light. ROADS AND RAIN I\W. D. MEN' HAPPY Tf the week-end rain pleased no one else it has made the public work-; department roading chiefs happy, for the downpour has already done a tremendous amount of good on the stretches between here and Rotorua in consolidating the foundation. Over the past weeks the road works have called for 40,000 gallons of water a day and the engineers are pleased that this will now be unnecessary. Roughly there is about a mile and a half, of permanent priming down, and approximately two miles and a ihalf is ready for the priming coat. This includes half a mile along tlio Taneatua -.road, the reconstruction of which is »undertaking. Nothing more for the mo. <-<n f ] and^unli 1 - ' * - '*«•»'* -■"> fO'i -