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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16869, 5 February 1929, Page 4

The vagaries of the weather this year ou the Takapau plains have exceeded anything that has been experienced by the settlers in the Jast 50 years (states the Napier Telegraph). Last week there was a heavy fall of snow on the top of the Kuanines. Previous to that thero was most excessive heat, and there has been no lack of rain through the summer,, with a super-abundance of feed. The farmer who was overstocked this year has' done well, as he could keep his feed shorter and sweeter. The judicious fanner who has top-dressed, has had more than his own share of troubles, with the feed too long, and causing foot-rot among lambs and owes, and at the same time too soft to finish off lambs. The rape in some places is very good, and in others only about three inches long, and just a few chains separating the different paddocks. •*■ .. I •,