HUGE TURNIP FIELD.
BIGGEST IN NEW ZEALAND. CROPPING ON KARIOI PLAINS. On ,a clear day climbers on Mount Ruapehu see below them a green square on the Karioi plains. From the slopes of the mountain the verdant patch ooks like a miniature pocket handkerchief. Actually it is the biggest turnip field in New Zealand, and a tsplendid example of the cropping capacity of the Karioi fiats. Six hundred acres in extent, this turnip field is ,the size of an ordinary farm. Two motor tractors did the ploughing, and cultivating, and the “strike” of the seed w.as extraordinarily good, the crop being so satisfactory that it is expected to winter 1500 hoggets. The field is on the property of Messrs' Duncan and Campion, Karioi station, and was very heavily manured. To say that a man came “off the turnips" would obviously, in this case, give him a fairly comprehensive origin.—Waftganui Chronicle.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4936, 8 February 1926, Page 4
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150HUGE TURNIP FIELD. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4936, 8 February 1926, Page 4
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