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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18420, 29 June 1925, Page 14

The increasing recognition 1)y farmery in the Wanganui district of the value of lucerne as a crop was referred to by an instructor of the Agricultural Department, in an- interview with a "Chronicle" reporter on Friday. "Of course." the informant remarked at the outset, "lucerne is the best crop a farmer can grow, providing he has suitable land. Most of the land along thi s coast—"where there is a good free soil and an open subsoil—is very'euitable for tfiis class of crop. Anywhere such conditions exist lucerne i» the crop par excellence." He further explained that farmers could get three or four cuts of the best hay a year from lucerne while it also made splendid ensilage. Farmers were realising its remarkable value, and each succeeding year showed an increase in the amount of seed sold bv merchants. As compared with three seasons ago. ihe quantity of seed sold had trebred itself. Now there was hardly a farmer along the coast who had not his small crop of lucerne. In the Marton district, where they possessed clay land, it would probably pay to sow rye and cow grasses rather than lucerne.

The fastest train in England is the 3.45 from Swindon to London. The schedule speed is.77J miles in 75 min- , utes, or 61.8 miles an hour. A flying i average, Challow to Ealing, was made 'in 47min oOsec, or at the rate of 74.5 miles an ? hour.