DRY WEATHER
GARDENS BEGINNING TO SUFFER EXCELLENT HAY CROP The dry weather of the last fortnight or so, while affecting town gardens and grassed areas adversely, has done little damage to farming country as yet. Possibly the hardest-hit land has been that laid out in lawn, as the fierce heat has dried the soil out and given the grass no chance to flourish. So far as the farmers arc concerned, the concensus of opinion appears to indicate a successful season. The bulk of the hay in this district has been harvested and only a few crops have still to be mown. The crop of ha.v this season, too. is said to have been exceptionally good, the rain and the fine weather coming as if "made to order." Now, however, rain is wanted to improve and hasten the turnip crops and thicken the older pastures. Newly-grassed land, for the greater part in clover, appears to have stood the weather well, though some of the older grass is feeling the effect of the heat. Stock arc thriving, and it appears as though this season will be infinitely better than last for production.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 109, 12 January 1940, Page 5
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190DRY WEATHER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 109, 12 January 1940, Page 5
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