COLD WEATHER

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 118, 14 November 1925, Page 6

COLD WEATHER

AUCKLAND'S BACKWARD

SEASON.

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to the "Evenlne Past.")

AUCKLAND, This Day.

So, far the season has not been very favourable to crops. Too much rain in the early spring has'been followed by a much-needed dry spell, but a good deal of the expected advantage of the latter has been spoiled by cold winds. This adverse condition has been unusually prolonged, and what is now ■wanted is calmer weather with more rain. Fodder crops are naturally backward, there being very little growth in early crops planted to give the summer and autumn supply. The hay crop is doubtful at present, but thero is still time for a good yield if favourable weatlier prevails for a few weeks, although it is getting so late that where farmers are at all short of grain they have abandoned the idea of shutting up any paddocks for hay, and are giving their dairy cows the whole of their backward pastures. In some districts a wonderful improvement in pastures followed the warm weather of last week, and this will greatly increase the milk returns for November.: .:. . '-; The weather to-day is squally and cold, resembling September more than a normal November.