UNSEASONABLE WEATHER.
EFFECT ON CHOI'S AND STOCK, CHHISTCHUKCH, Jan. 4.
In the country the unseasonable .wcathtr has made an already lale season later sjtiK. From Oxlord, 10 miles west <Jf Christchurch, near the ranges, come reports 1 hat, under the most favourable circumstances, the grain crop must be far below the average. Potatoes will be a failure, •xcept on light soil, and even there the ground is so coH tjiat good results cannot bo expected. Individual losses i,yy the perishing of sheep Iron cold after sharing range from £lO to £2OO. Dairymen comp ! l u i n that the milk yield has been very disappointing. At Chevoit the harvest has not I°™"°" yt>t ' thC C ''°'' S ]xing Vl ' ry If u'f C<^, d weatiler h j«» been much | felt by the newly-shorn sheep in the I'laitapu district. L.W°. win< T' a threshing the wheat (that is well forward.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7706, 7 January 1905, Page 2
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148UNSEASONABLE WEATHER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7706, 7 January 1905, Page 2
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