WEATHER AND WOOL
HOW FARMERS ARE AFFECTED
In a recent issue of a contemporary paper is related the complaint of a King Country farmer to a friend in Timaru concerning the weather.
“This weather,” declared the farmer, a woolgrower, “is going to knock £350 off my wool cheque.” • The sceptical townie inquired to know how this was arrived at-
“Well, my sheep were ail ready for shearing when the recent spell of wet weather set in, and the shearing had fo he indefinitely postponed,” explained the pastoralist. “When the fink* weather comes 1 must waif for. several days’ sun to get the fleew dried out. “Meantime* the* pastures are full of bidibidi awaitling jiist four days 1 sun to burst into ffie* sticky stage, and when I get my sheep mustered for shearing the fleeces will be matted with bidibidi, a' condition which will knock twopcWrtr per pound off the selling price of the fleece.”
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Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1693, 6 January 1936, Page 5
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155WEATHER AND WOOL Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1693, 6 January 1936, Page 5
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