EFFECT OF DROUGHT
AUSTRALIA’S SET-BACK
’GRAIN AND MEAL SHORT “It. is expected that the present sftri®us drought in Australia will rescttt in no grain or meals being available for importation into New Zeatatb” said a letter from Mr P. VF. Smallfield, director of the FmMSs Division of the Department of Agriculture, received by the Thames District Council of Primary Production at its meeting recency.
“Farmers should be encouraged to produce greater areas of crops for feeding to pigs next winter. While it is now ttfo late to encourage cereal production in most districts, it is not too late for the pig producer to sow areart -of swedes, chou moellier, carrots, silver beet, pumpkins, kumikumis and maize, or for the poultij producer to sow maize and other suitable crops so that he would be as independent as possible of outside sup plies.”
From advice lie had received the situation might even be more serious than indicated, said the secretarj, Mi J. E. Green.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32515, 11 December 1944, Page 3
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