Break-up of the Drought.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, 18 December 1914, Page 3

Break-up of the Drought.

The welcome showers which fell on Tuesday and Wednesday last will do much to lighten the load of care which was slowly hut surely descending on the hacks of the farmers in this part ef the Waikato. Although too late to be of any advantage to the earlier sown grain and chaff crops, it will do immense good to the pasture land, and is just in time to enable 4* a good sowing of turnips to he made. The outlook, although brighter, is still dull enough, for with a "partial failure of the various summer-grown forage crops, the farmers will he dependent on the turnip crop for winter feed for the cattle, and until the turnip crops.are well away and showing n. fn"r rphim farmflrs will rnn-

a iair return, tanners will continue to be somewhat uneasy regarding the coming winter. The failure of any crop is especially serious just now, when, owing to the war, imports are very much restricted, and it is to be hoped that the next few months will bring us weather suitable for obtaining the best results from farming operations. It would be a curious calculation, and the result would astound most of us, to find'out what is the actual loss resulting from the partial drought which has just broken up, and also, what is the money value of the rain which has just fallen. Already the gardens in Huntly are looking better for the showers that have fallen, and every wh re we hear the housewives telling one another that their tanks are full. Those who have had to carry water already this summer will be especially grateful for the downfall.