THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.
i , :(\Vdliogto ■ Paper) d.. i The stormy and very wet weather prevalent during the ipast tinve days throughout the Wairaiapa has-j been simply terrible. Large areas of corn 'craps 'are. nearly beaten to the .earth, mo^t surety indicating serious loss to the growers. Hitherto the weather has been most propitious to the late potato cjrop, but growers inow 7 Want more '.warm sunshine to fructify the yield. Orchards this season- m the district are making but poor returns, gooseberries excepted. Yesterday m &rey town the wind was mere violent thau most winter storms, but happily there are no floods to. chroniqje,. the risers, although full to pverflowing,nndin.g an puHefcin their natural channels. Not bo, however, on this side the Einiutaka : at the TJpper Rutt this morning " old settlers" coming down could see the river bank-high. As the Silvcrstream was reached, paddocks on either side wero inundated, and upon ne»ring the railway bridge, all around, the paddocks were under water, and for some distance the old coach road was also flooded — an eveut never seen by tho oldest settler present 1 m the company.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 47, 24 January 1884, Page 3
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188THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 47, 24 January 1884, Page 3
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