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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 8

' The present spell of continuous wet weather has been the cause of dairy production in the Gisborne district dropping sharply. The dislocation of roads during the flood did not seriously afreet supplies to the dairy factories, because the blocked roads were mainly in the back country where dairying was not undertaken, but the continued wet and cold conditions have caused the cows to go off rapidly in their production, and it should not be long before most herds are completely dried off for the season. Many farmers are now milking only once a day. The difficulties of keeping up the milk supply are accentuated by the continued rain bogging up paddocks where there is much tramping of stock, and those farmers who have not much concrete round their milking sheds are finding their cows sinking deeply into the rnud,