THE WEATHER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 147683, 31 August 1911, Page 8

THE WEATHER.

Sir,—ln i a recent issue of your * i paper there* appeared; an. article which, .when deal- - ' ; Jrig with the,'weather; renditions, warned farmers to learn i' a . lesson -from, their past summer's experience, arid to grow plenty of green feed for the next hot season. A friend of mine who had • made a study..-, of the ' ' question for some years; once remarked to , mo that wo in this country -could get a ' pretty good, forecast of 'our, weather if wo I watched the conditions Tilling in New York. 1 1 1 have done so for.some time pas?, and the result is interesting. Taking New.'. York first, I noticed.;that the summer of 19,09 was v; wet, ami was witb much ' - loss of life in the winter, w a in our v turn had a wet, mild summer, with j.!i: very wet winter. Last summer in New York was very hot, and the cable.- informed us that huge forest fires swept some parts of the j country, and wiped out a few towns, while th heat in New York and Chicago was • (excessive, miiny deaths from sunstroke being recorded. This was . followed ;by a ; severe 11 g -winter:' in v thatjcountry, snowstorms' aud blizzards being, common, whilst tome' of the J thermometer 'readings |I wore very low. We ?. an our turn had a hot, cUr summer at, the beginning of -this . year, i from/•.which the • country ' has 'not' yet recovered', and the ■winter just closing lias been a severe one, ' ■""f, with its , frost and snow, j and S also ..witness thy great floods down South. Now, sir, our American neighbours axe passing: through another hot summer, with very excessive heat in - Chicago, and huge forest fires in other parts. (The cables also inform us •of great boat in some of the European " -capitals, asVienna, with loss of life, - duo to sunstroke.) ' Therefore. judging by our experience of the past two years, analogical y reasoning should load its to ' esrnect another ' very dij summer,' and narhaps a drought* - " V in tho season which is noV? approaching-It; .-would be well for. our farmers to take liced gjjSgp| of your "warning, and * plant plenty *of xgreenj feed tor their stock now. R.A.D.