TURNIP CROP
SUCCESS OF HERNING SWEDES,
IN FACE OF DERISIVE COMMENT,
NELSON, July 24
A few weeks ago a. Nelson Press Association message reported remarkable results were being obtained in Murchison district with the Herning variety of swede turnips recommended by Dr D. L. Freeman, of the Department of Agriculture, Nelson, in view of local conditions and ravages of club root in crops previously grown. This announcement has been subjected to a good deal of derisive comment in certain quarters. The season in now sufficiently advanced to give definite data. Mr D. Jones, winner of the herd testing competition, and recognised as a first-class farmer, sowed six acres of Herning swedes, and then two acres in the same paddock with a, mixture of Herning and a variety previously used. The strike was perfect till a few weeks after hoeing. Not a Herning swede was affected, but the others completely withered and died. Mr J'ames measures hie, average, on a hundred square feet, the weight of swedes being 4801 b, equal to ninety tons per acre. His brother, Mr Thomas James, had a hundred cows feeding eight houtv daily on two and a half acres, and the swedes lasted thirty one days.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1933, Page 5
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201TURNIP CROP Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1933, Page 5
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