PASTURES AND ROOT CROPS RECOVER

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22909, 4 January 1940, Page 3

PASTURES AND ROOT CROPS RECOVER

RAIN AFTER CONTINUED DRY WEATHER .

LINCOLN METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY

Pastures and root crops have made excellent recoveries and. winter feed crops now promise well as a- result ot nearly four inches of ram on Decemstates the monthly summary of meteorological observations at Canterbury Agricultural College, Lmcolnr This; fall' broke ?tffe" drought. period, which had affected most acorn. Pea crops, which were feeling tne effects of the dry weather, also give I good promise: but the ram has come I too late for most of the wheat and barlev crops, and yields from these will probably be the lowest in Canterbury for some years. . \ The summary states that the first three weeks in December continued hot and dry, and this on top of the previous dry weather had an adverse effect on all cereal crops. Many oat crops have been cut during the last 10 days of the month and yields are estimated | as considerably lower than usual, while wheat and barley crops appear to be similarly affected. Rape, turnips, man- , gels, and swede crops have done poony in the dry weather, many in the lighter tend having to be resown.. Pastures; were burnt up. resulting in milking cows falling off in production and fewer fat lambs than usual being, drafted off the mothers. I Temperatures for December were i fairly high. The .average maximum temperature for the month of 72.4 degrees is '2.3 degrees above the station , average of 70.1 degrees. The total i rffialL of 4.32 inches is 2.20 inches more than the station avefage, while the hours of sunshine. 239.5, are well above the average of 209 hours. Following is>e summary of observations during December, with figures'for the same month in 1938 erven in- parenthesis for a companion:—Mean height of barometer (ins), 29 821 (29.577): mean humidity (per cent)' 62 2 (63.8); mean maximum tcmSatu?e (degrees F.>. 72.4 (66.8); highest maximum temperature (on December 23) 85.2 (79.3); mean minimum tem perature,. 52.0 (47.9): lowest minimum temperature (on -December 3), 40 0 (37.0); mean grass minimum temperature, 47.6 (41.8) '; lowest grassmimmum temperature (on' December 3), ,33.0 (29.3); mean temperature for month, 62:2 (57.3); mean range of. temperaiture for month 20.4 (18.9): mean earth temnerature 60.1 (56.6); daVS Of frost. 0 ?D- Sfall (inches). 4.32 (4.71); ramAll to date. 27.21 (35.37); hours of J&ine 230.5 (243 5): mean, amount o f n cloud:s.2 (6.7); d '(4 2) (5702); mean force of wind. I.i &•*>• Shipping Strike Ends—A 53-day strike-of shipping clerks has unofficially ended. Representatives of the employers and the union announced that they would sign an agreement, to-morrow for of the port at 1' p.m. the same day.—San Francisco, Jan. 2. - , 1