EARLY TOPDRESSING NEEDED
GROWTH BEFORE WINTER
Early topdressing, and especially so this autumn, has much to commend it. Pasture growth held back by the dry summer should get what help it can in making growth before winter, states Mr A. C. Morton, lecturer in sheep husbandry at Massey Agricultural College, in an interview. He said that light rain, or even, autumn dew, was generally sufficient to wash the superphosphate into the ground. Any hesitation in putting on super in dry weather during the normal. topdressing period was unwise, because it might easily cause serious delay in promoting the extra autumn growth.
Mr Morton instanced the case of his own property, where topdressing of a liillside had ben carried out. in dry January. Though no rain fell for six weeks afterwards, the clovers came away on the sunny face and twice as much stock, as formerly was carried that winter. Early topdressing meant, in effect, a shorter winter and an earlier spring. This year there was a danger of a shortage of feed in the spring, and early topdressing would help, to avoid that*
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 65, 18 April 1944, Page 3
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183EARLY TOPDRESSING NEEDED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 65, 18 April 1944, Page 3
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