SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT.
Visitors to Clyde cannot fail to notice a large patch of green growth on the reeky hillside on the opposite side of the river (says the Otago “Times”). This growth is the result of an experiment which has been conducted by the Agricultural Da- ' partment. The intention was to ascertain whether, if the rabbits were kept off the land, it would “ come back ” to its condition before ihe advent of the rabbit. Twenty-five acres of bare, rocky hillside were therefore closely fenced with rabbit-proof netting. Some “plots”—if such a term could be applied to bare, hilly oountry—were artificially planted, while others were left to Nature. There was no irrigation, but it should be mentioned that Nature has been kind to the goldfields district this season in the matter of rainfall. This advantage given in, the results of the experiment are astonishing. Native blue mountain grass ha 3 sprung up; silver tussock is growing in fine style ; cocksfoot—the seed of which has blown in -is three or four feet high; lucerne shows a good growth. The experiment has proved a convinc. ing success, and an education to the farmers in the Central district of what can be done through rabbit fencing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1917, Page 3
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