THE WEATHER.

Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3211, 24 January 1893, Page 3

THE WEATHER.

Who ever remembers such weather j ram, rain, almost,every day, and not the' smart showers that we are accustomed to, and expect in glimmer, with westerly breezes to drv the crops again, but heavy drenching rains that penetrate through everything! Hay clicks, stooks, stacks, even house roofs hwe not been able to withstand the terrible downpour, and generally speaking the latter may be laid to, have leaked all round, and between each spell of wet weather, the atmosphere is cloße and oppressively warm. What our farming friends think of it, we are almost afraid to conjecture. Much damage has already been caused by the prolonged wet, and how grain crops are to be saved at all in such a season is at--1 most a puzzle, Between such _ harvest weather and prospective low prices, our grain ; Bi'riwera are certainly entitled to all the sympathy' they can get.. But the lossesare not by any. means confined to the white erops. Potatoes on low-lying lands, are reported to be rotting, and less a change comes very soon, we do not expect to see sound potatoes taken off clay lands.' The turnip crops are also be-hind-hand, large areas that should now be up in the rough leaf, are either not gown at all, with the land too wet to pet upon, or if : thsy, are in, the owner, in many cases, heartily.wishes .they, were not, for the flood rains have furrowed the higher lands and silted up,the flats to r such an extent that the'crop will, in some instances have tO;be sown again.,:■■