OTAGO TOO WINTRY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 409, 19 January 1909, Page 3

OTAGO TOO WINTRY.

LAMBS SUFFER. ',/ So.far this is'the coldest-and wettest sum-for',many:'S^year./(reMrts--::our''':'special" Dunedin correspondent).'. But for the length . of therdays.,one i jiiightVsupp6se that it was ■ Julyinstead of January, Only: two ftne days ha\o been. ewbyed ; ,m .Souths Otago*. since *. haa been; per-, sistent. To farmers ,in the. southern districts ;' the''.unusual; state .of - is'.-not : only unpleasant,but: seripusj ,/from ■ a . money r point. .of .view.; Tholambsarenot doing well. .;'The chdly'iweatber.'is -pjnching^he 1 ewes and : : pine their mili'; corisequently the lambs .that ougnt to be fattening ..fast - more or less , delayed, and in some exposed places they are losing condition. This."will -affect'the export*trade...The.;grain.crops".on the Taieri and Tokomairiro Plains seem to be mostly standing'up all right-.' .' The' youag .-. : . turnips, too, appear to be safe;, excepting ■... fdr. ; tte : tremendous growth'of. w4eds that canJiot;bo- got'at. just now.' The. grass is-' of ,phenomenal.J. luxuriance;; both north and .south. The worst news from - the. country .is ..as'to the-.rye : and :hay.. v'-TKroiigll-- ■ out-Southland, and; in .many places between Clinton and Dunedinj the .rye crop-is flat. It goes, down very; quickly under heavy rain. . The hay crop is also badly damaged. In the , , northern; district .of Otagothe rain and "cold do noc seem to have ..done any'damage so far.,