VALUE OF LIME
PRODUCTION INCREASE REPORTED
ASHBURTON COUNTY EXPERIENCES
Evidence of increased productivity of fat stock, cereals, and hay as' a result of increased lime sowing in the Ashburton County was given to the Transport Appeal Authority (Sir Francis Frazer) on Monday, by several farmers, who appeared in support of Burnetts Motors in an appeal against that company being granted five additional vehicle licences.
“Wonderful,” was the reply by Robert Buick, a Lyndhurst farmer, to a question as to results from using lime. He was growing hay where hay never* grew before, and had taken increased and better stock off his properties. -The liming system was increasing in the Ashburton County every day, with increases in stock and crops following. Henry McKelvie Copeland, farming 1488 acres of light to medium land at Dromore, he had snread 900 tons of lime last year, and had been able to turn off fat cattle, which he had not been able to do before, and to get his lambs away fat. He had seen twice as many turnips grown on a Carew farm paddock than on an unlimed paddock. He had turned 1265 fat lambs off his property last year; he had not been able to do that before. Robert Day Robinson, a farmer and sheep dealer, of Ashburton, said lime increased production in every way. Lime had been used as a topdresser to make up the leewdy when the use of superphosphate was stopped. It was only in recent years that farmers had found how beneficial lime could be to light country. A farm, almost derelict and just about out of production, was bought by him four years ago, said Norman Watson, a Springburn farmer. About 500 sheep were carried on the 645 acres. It was now carrying 1200 ewes and 52 head of cattle, as a result of liming. He agreed with other witnesses that liming had increased crop and stock productivity over the county. __________
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24910, 25 June 1946, Page 6
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323VALUE OF LIME Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24910, 25 June 1946, Page 6
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