FARMERS WORRIED.
POVERTY BAY DRY SPELL. GTS BORNE, March 28. Dairy farmers are experiencing their worst ’ season in TOccnt times. Dry conditions have prevailed for six months and production throughout tho district is .30 per cent, lower than last season,. which was not a good one. The decline in output, compared with two years ago, is substantially more than 30 per cent. The ’worst, however, may lie ahead. Farmers aro faced with the prospect of an acute shortage of winter feed. If ram comes during the next week or .?o the position will he much relieved, but, if the dry. spoil continues much beyond F.aster and if. the weather is cold, prospects for the winter will bo uncertain. . The rainfall during tho past six months has been particularly low, although earlier in the vear drying winds were the worst feature. Less than half of the average rainfall has been experienced since the beginning of October, only 8.39 in being recorded in Gisborne, compared with the average of 18.47 in for that period. Tf rain does not come soon there may be very little hut! erf at produced in the Gisborne district, apart from the Matawai and Motu areas, during tho remainder of the season.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 101, 29 March 1939, Page 4
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204FARMERS WORRIED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 101, 29 March 1939, Page 4
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