That Magic Lucerne

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31107, 9 July 1966, Page 10

That Magic Lucerne

A LOBURN farmer, Mr A. T. Metherell, had an unexpected visitor last Sunday. He was Mr D. D. Jones, of Aberystwyth in Wales. On a short visit to New Zealand Mr Jones has been intrigued at the ability of lucerne hay to winter stock and he wanted to see lucerne hay—he had not seen lucerne before. A retired farmer, Mr Jones, conducted a 32 acre farm in the borough of Aberystwyth for 10 years. He milked about 20 cows and also retailed the milk. No ploughing was done on the farm and concentrates in cake form had to be bought in to supplement

the diet of his cattle. Mr Metherell showed Mr Jones one of his lucerne stands and the Welshman left the farm with a sample of lucerne hay. Aberystwyth, where Mr Jones lives, is Incidently the home of the famous Welsh plant breeding station. The immediate purpose of Mr Jones’s visit to New Zealand is to see an elderly brother, who left home to go to Australia 54 years ago and is now living in this country. Between 1920 and 1955 the family in the United Kingdom lost contact with him but then he turned up in Britain to look up his relatives.