FARMERS ANXIOUS
DROUGHT IN AUCKLAND DISTRICT HAY AND OAT CROPS FAIL. (IT TBtBOIUPH-SWCML TO TH» P0«.) • AUCKLAND, This Day. The period of drought which the district is passing through is causing the farming community in the Whangarei district the greatest anxiety and cori' cern. One settler has stated that in 75 per cent, of cases the stops of meadow hay had completely Tailed, and alsp 90 per cent, of the oat crops. The latter are now running to seed, although on an average the stalks have not reached a greater height than nine inches. Many settlers are turning cattle into standing oats to feed them off, as it is realised that there are no prospecti of the crops being cut for ibaff. There is still a good deal of fted for stock, &s of late the pastures have been refreshed with heavy dews at night, bat there has not been sufficient j^netvation of moisture to help the iiot ci-ot-s. The hilly country is beginning '.o dinnlay the unmistakable brown tinge which betokens drought) and the state of affairs is reflected in the fact *hat cream reI turns are falling.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 122, 19 November 1914, Page 2
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189FARMERS ANXIOUS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 122, 19 November 1914, Page 2
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