West ‘Coast Farmers’ Lime Producing Co, Ltd.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1926, Page 4

West ‘Coast Farmers’ Lime Producing Co, Ltd.

SECT?ETA RY'S REPOR T. For the half-year ending December 31st, 1925 the amount of lime supplied to farmers was 650 tons.

The weather experienced during the Spring was the worst on record with the result that some farmers who had booked their orders ahead were compelled to cancel them. It is to be hoped that when bettor conditions prevail that farmers will pay attention to liming their land, even top-dressing-with. Carbonate is beginning to show, its advantages on West Coast soil. Get the habit and it will soon he ingrained to treat your old pastures in” time. Some men arc continually taking from the soil and putting nothing hack. They wonder why thenstock is not thriving and cannot see that the stock carrying capacity of their paddocks has been much reduced. After various crops have been taken off land it is sown down in grass and clovers and remains thus pernaps hull) years. . What is-the result 3 The best grasses and clovers vanish, ion get a. good crop of Yorkshire hog maybe. hut this is not going to give you a fat cheque. Ploughing and cultivation to-dav costs much more than a. voa'-s ago: too often the farmer looks at a. paddock and knows that alt-hougn it has a fair covering ot vegetation it practically has no fattening value He puts off the ploughing until a more convenient time unless lie has t ic ir,-it to sav I haven’t the money to plough but T Will Rive it a top-cress,ng of one ton of Carbonate to the acie.

The following Spring in looking mei this paddock he finds the clove,- and better class of grasses showing through £ year top-dressing ol grass lands improved most successful and -the stock carrying capacity inc-caaed consr - nblv. In Canterbury and Otago bu t year flic various lime works weie kept ‘.roil,** right through the winter suppling principally Carbonate of l.nne for top-dressing pastures. The largest lime works visited ira. turning out 1500 tons per week t»s Shows that farmers m the a u.niit> „ere educated up to the value . of Carbonate of Lime ns a top-dressing, if Canterbury and Otago require Carboliate bow much more is the need of West Coast soils which have been cohered with dense forests since the ycai o,e Vn Taranaki some enterprising dairymen have cut their, cultivation ‘ V. bv treating their pastures with 2cwt‘of superphosphate and 1 ton f TJunii-itc pe,- acre where required. ° s'o one would suggest abandoning the plough or not credit the value of burnt lime when cropping -but tte ~vo times when top-dressing wdl K" - better results fo r the amount of money Amended. Carloonate runs through the lime sower faster than burnt lime and lasts -even vears in the soil. X„v non-shareholder by sending us W sacks can obtain a 6-ton truck .. carbonate for £7 15s, if he ,s prepared to pav for it m 39 days. The'advantage of being a shave ohor with from 10 to 60 shares « that if the lime is paid for inside 30 da. . from the date of delivery the shareholder is entitled to a discount ot D iK \\’o "still have considerable trouble with customers sending sacks to the wvrks. Consignment notes must he made out. Labels must be addressed to l< Li me Works, Ross with senders name on the other side. I ' l 1J s c j inside one sack and see that sacks 10-u-e Fla" Stations. We have ache - Used these instructions for. the past two vears and still someone will bluad-

C 1 The Railway Department say that Hcv will not be responsible, nor ml ho Li mo Coy., if these instructions arc not carried out when sacks ,o astray.