WEATHER AND CROPS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10572, 1 March 1912, Page 5

WEATHER AND CROPS

THE JANUARY REPORT. (Reporting to the ''Agricultural J Journal" for the month of January, I the officers of the Stock Department in the Wairarapa state: — iPahiatua.— January weather was fairly good. It enabled shearing to the completed, crops to be, put in, and hay and corn to be harvested in a good icondition. There is an abundance of feed, and from all appearances stock generally wilt ibe fairly well provided! for during the coming winter. (Ensilage is being made on several farms. Roots are late but are looking well, tout green .maize is very late and poor.—T. Bacon. Wairarapa (Akitio and Oastlepoint.) —Some very warm days, with rain at intervals, which kept the pastures except on. the high country, were the features of January weather. Oops are looking exceptionally well/ and there will toe a much better return than has been the case for some years. Oats in particular are a-very; iieavy .crop. Maisse, too; hai.grown very well, and on many dairy farms there: should be a-good supply of this fodder for cows during the months when other feed is scarce. Much, more maize has been grown this sea- ■ son tha : n last. T. OHWebhi; '.. | Wairarapa- - (north-west). The weather was- particularly good ...last month. White and root crops were greatly assisted by occasional .showers. Tlie wet weather of the preceding months made the grass soft, and encouraged' it to run to seed. It has now improved, and is plentful. Turnips are promising, but rape is not as good'as usual". Wheat should be well up to the average, but oats below it.— J. S. Kanki'n.