NEWS FROM VICTORIA

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 234, 1 July 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM VICTORIA

Wonderful Growth Follows The Drought

The letter quoted here was received this week from a former Manawatu farmer, now following his occupation near Melbourne, in Victoria. “As you are no doubt aware, the drought in Australia broke about 12 weeks ago,” he says. “Since then we have had another extreme. I have just about forgotten what the sun looks like. “We have so much feed now we don’t know what to do with it.—grass nine

inches high and still growing. No frosts have been experienced at) yet. “Last October I leased one of our paddocks to a neighbour. He immediately sowed maize, but it did not come up till the March rains, as there was not a particle of moisture in the soil till then. Once started it grew at. such a rate that it has now reached eix to seven feet tall, and is being cut and fed out. “Store stock are very dear since the drought, making restocking a problem. “Ewes have started lambing. I had two here la«t week, both very healthy. “Some bullocks on hand are coming on very fast, and should go off prime in August and September.’!