BACKWARD DAIRY SEASON
SOTH ISLAND IN WORSE STATE THAN NORTH. By lelegimili lies- tssiiiiatloti Palmerston North. October 30. Stating that at present farmers are just struggling along on the feed available. the Director of the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture described the present spell of dry weather as the worst experienced at this time of the year for eight or ten years. Rain was wanted very badly, he said : but other parts were milch drier than the Mnnawatu. particularly in th” South Island. t The backward conditions throughout the Dominion were attributable to the cold spring and easterly winds carrvihg no moisture. Unless rain soon fell, feed for dairy cattle would be very short. The present weather was <|uite favourable for sheep-fanning.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 32, 1 November 1929, Page 20
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