MONEY IN SIDE LINES
| That there is money in side lines' was' forciblV and pleasingly brought home •to a Mauiototo farmer (says an exchange). Turnip seed, which was re-' sponsible for the rise in tho case in question, ia now worth 4s. 6d. per lb., tho'pro-war price being only 7(1. The farmer had a small area (about an acre) in t.ui'nips, which had not been eaten off, and had gone to seed. He was about to commence ploughing it in, when the representative of a Dunedin firm of stock and station agents suggested that it,would bo a payable proposition to save the seed.' The farmer was led to see the wisdom of the advice, with pleasing' results to himself and to several others, to whom he gave half shares in return for harvesting the seed. The method/of 'saving tho seed was primitive in the extreme. The heads .were simply cut off and thrown into sheets, and the seed flayed out, but it paid handsomely, the harvesters and the .dividing £1000. A farmer in the Tarras district is at present harvesting a ten-acre crop of turnip seed, which is expected to yield anything from £500 to £1000 per aero.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 100, 22 January 1919, Page 10
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198MONEY IN SIDE LINES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 100, 22 January 1919, Page 10
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