DRY SPELL IN SOUTH.
ANXIETY FELT FOR CROPS. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) ASHBURTON, Friday. Anxiety is felt for the grain crops owing to the recent dry, hot spell, and unless the weather breaks soon the oats will be ready to harvest before Christmas, with a light crop, while wheat, of which much is spring sown and backward, promises to ripen off with only 60 per cent, of the average yield. Pastures are also affected. One live stock man stated that a day's soaking rain would benefit him to the extent of £IOO.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1434, 1 December 1923, Page 5
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92DRY SPELL IN SOUTH. Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1434, 1 December 1923, Page 5
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