WINTER FEED FOR STOCK.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 May 1919, Page 5

WINTER FEED FOR STOCK.

SERIOUS EFFECT OF IS® , DROUGHT. _ Palmerston North, MajJttß. ; Interviewed in Palmereton NobQl tw day while passing through to WeUtogtab ' tho Hn. D. H. Guthrie, in touching oi tkl position of the farmers for the vintat, admitted that it was most 4 the question of providing feed far stock < during the winter was one whicb tnytflji have to be faced, and was alradyctm* ing the Government a good dad ot thought. He said that he had HMtnril information from Hawke's Bay to tk# effect that the season was to* vcot ever experienced there, and lie waa afraid' that practically the bulk of the North Island and a good deal of tho See£h Island was suffering severely fron drought. \ With reference to fat stndk> Mr. Guthrio said that he had dao*tti best to get sufficient shipping to djjf' the cold stores and the froceo SMfe' works. Thirteen inralated VfiNla mZ be provided during sthe present which should ease, thb position MQddli* ably. He admitted, however, that ft fat of stock which had been got ready ftt shipment would bo bound to g» t»dt in condition, and that a good deal ofH would be unfit for eiuport by the tin* the works were ready to take It, while many head which had been really prints would only paw as secondary qwlity now. , ■ ■