HEAVY CROP LOSSES
Drought Breaks In New
South Wales
(Rec. 7 p.m.) SYDNEY, October 1. Rain is falling in the Riverina district, but it has come too late to save the crops which, it is estimated, would have been worth £10,900,000. Farmers declare that even two or three inches of rain would make no more than a slight improvement in the position. So far only five points of rain has fallen. The rainfall in the district this year is the lowest since 1902. The main crops lost are wheat and oats. These crops are only about six inches high and are already in ear. They should have been three and a-half feet high at this time. Most graziers have turned their stock on to their crops. Normally the district produces 70 per cent, of the hay in New South Wales. Farmers have been carting water from the Murrumbidgee river for their stock.
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Southland Times, Issue 25484, 3 October 1944, Page 5
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152HEAVY CROP LOSSES Southland Times, Issue 25484, 3 October 1944, Page 5
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