Country News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 144, 21 December 1901, Page 3

Country News.

B3f TJDHO uME J UNO IIONv The farmers around Studholme. Junction h*ve suffered very Baveiely by the hail storm of Monday without doubt the severest experienced in this district for a number of years. As far as I can learn it seems to have beau only a narrow strip between the railway line and the sea, which experienced the worst. The wheat in some crops has suffered to a considerable extent. Some Tuscan I saw must have had at least ,15 bushels per acre threshed out or broken down, and lower towards the sea I am inform-d that the barley and oats were beaten flat to the ground. Potatoes were beaten and stripped, turnips and mangolds looked as if a heavy drove of sheep had been over them on a wet day, while turnip that were only just through the ground, have beun completely Bwept away. One p*ddook ot peas I saw-was cut to pieces and will hanly pay the cut-ing S nwberries could hardly be seen for soil, add one grower of fruit here will be thloser of about £50,. He had a sp'endid crop of cherries, plunw/pe .ta and apples on 250 trees, the cherrfjs were smashed to a polp, and a* for .the plums and apples there i« hardly a v « »«o«l -fruit, in the whole orchard. Borne Irißb/>pe>»oh apples I noticed were -split right into four pieces, whiU tbe e*me farmer lost 37 Peklhduofa folly half grown. They were on the water and bejfQ/s,cbey could, be driven to shelter they were struck and; dropped' like ninepins. about the etorm. I [hope** no£ hava to I*% again. ' ',_ >,r "t,-, t / ■., ->' '■■ *« /'«, ',* 1 . J 1 < %X. - r ' <■ *:■"" I t •'' •&•*? "- ?' >, I*.