RAIN WELCOMED
Crops Will Benefit After nearly six weeks of hot northwest winds, the steady rain which fell yesterday from 2 p.m. brought much needed relief to cropping districts in South Canterbury. Wheat crops had been showing the effects of the dry spell, but they had pot readied the stage where they could not make a recovery. Farmers reported at the end of last month that unless rain fell withjn a fortnight their crops would be in a serious condition. After tlie heavy downpours earlier ip the year the recent hot winds hud baked the surface of thp around and nodi’. exceedingly hard. There was a danger that if the dry spell continued wheat crops would come into ear prematurely- Wheat, barl"v. rape, peas, turnips and potatoes will benefit considerably from the fall.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23375, 5 December 1945, Page 4
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133RAIN WELCOMED Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23375, 5 December 1945, Page 4
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