WEATHER AND CROPS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 885, 11 December 1916, Page 10

WEATHER AND CROPS.

MOISTURE NECESSARY. The dry spoil that has continued without a break now for some weeks, is causing fanners a good deal of anxiety. This dryness is fortunately only confined to a radius of from twenty lo thirty miles around Christchurch, but within this radius things are by no means looking bright for crops, more especially oats. Wheat is also showing signs of wanting rain. Ashburton farmers are not so bad- ' ly off in this respect, and the county is looking fairly well, while up towards the hills, in districts like • Methven, the crops are looking exceptionally bright. A large grain grower in the Methven district stales that the wheat crops on his farm have never previously shown such promise. In the Rakaia district a large proportion of the oat crop is already cut • and in stook, the last few hot days bringing them on very rapidly.