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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 110, 7 February 1928, Page 13

Many farmers are finding it extremely difficult to maintain a water supply for their stock and this, together with tlie fact that pastures are all more or less scorched as the result of the long spell of drv weather, is causing a big decline in milk production (states the “Taranaki Herald”). The position is becoming so serious that many herds will soon be dry unless there is a change very soon, and farmers will have to face three or four months, instead of a few weeks, without any monthly cheques coming in. ‘ 1 lungs look so bad to me,” said a coastal farmer to a “Herald” reporter, that I am making a prisoner of every possible shilling I can. At my place we are only buving bare necessities. On the other hand, those farmers who have crops of soft turnips and green oats are not finding their cows going down” to any appreciable extent.