“For the past couple of months production has been steadily falling on the dairv lands of the Auckland province,” said Dlr. A. E. Robinson provincial secretary of the Farmers Union in regard to the effects of the dry spell (reports the Auckland ‘J? tar '■ He said that in normal times ber or January were flush months of the dairying season, and expectation was that production would be unusually heavy, as the amount of top-dress-ing done last winter was a record. The outlook for the remainder of the season was causing anxiety m all parts, as it was now realised that there would not be the benefit that was cxpecteo as the outcome of heavy expenditure upon fertiliser*.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 89, 13 January 1928, Page 3
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