Heat Waves have Seriously Damaged Queensland Pastures 21 Jan 1939
In Queensland the heat wave has been intense and continuous. Graziers here expect hot weather in the
pastoral areas at this time of the year, but conditions this month have been abnormal. Usually the grass is
harder and older and can to a large extent withstand the customary heat without drying back to the ground, but the heavy rains forced the grass along and it is sappy that the succession of heat waves has done so much harm that the grass is of little use for stock where it is still standing, and in other places It has been burnt back right to ground level and blown away.
As an indication of the severe conditions prevailing and of the real difficulty graziers are having in keep
ing 3tock alive may be stated that In the Emerald district sheep are being agisted at the unusually high rate of £30 to £35 per thousand head per month. The usual rate is from £20 to £25.