FARMING IN SOUTHLAND
A FAVOURABLE WINTER In an interview with the Invercargill representative of the Otago Daily Times, Mr E. J. Heenan, of Bowmont, said that the farming community in Southland had experienced an exceptionally mild winter, especially favourable in the high country districts. “I cannot recall, during my long association with pastoral pursuits in Southland, so mild a winter,” Mr Heenan said, “and the mortality among stock should be the smallest recorded in the annals of the province.” The absence of severe storms and snowfalls, and particularly the nonrecurrence of heavy frosts, had had a beneficial effect on the pastures of the grazing areas, Mr Heenan said, and consequently the stock on the higher and more isolated districts had wintered exceptionally well, and this factor alone augured well for the success of the current wool clip, which, in Mr Heenan’s opinion, would be one of the best recorded in Southland.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22963, 19 August 1936, Page 16
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