£900 WORTH FROM AN ACRE.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 31 August 1918, Page 3

£900 WORTH FROM AN ACRE.

How £900 worth of foodstuffs was produced from 0110 acre of landwasexplained at Walton-on-Thames Tribunal recently when an exemption was grantod to an expert at tlie local Intensive Gardens. There is no <$o<ub)3 tliat derful returns per acre can be obtained bv oare ful cultivation of land planted with vcofcablw. '"Pbr instance, a pound of Parsnip, Carrot, Swede or similar soed, costing but a few shillSngH with suitable soil and good cultivation, -hould produce about ton, tons of fowl stuffs. This even at one penny per )» (wihl'ch is not nearly the value) equals £93 in value. Smaller uveas .should .show even better results in proportion, ft ii» of course, imperfcam':. that tlie seeds sown should be tlie best procurable—stroll si in growth and heavy crop, pins selections 1 . These are the features ! n .f OnoperV "Seeds t;f .Success, _ which are crown as far ap possible m Tsew Zealand from tlhWr oira pedigree stock. Yon eiinnoli afford to waste your ground and von r time. In brief, c <^ : not afford to bo without Coopei s Seed!-, +< 5" time For instance, Coop; er's N.Z? grown* Mangel Scf headed the list of nineteen lots «f mangel;®' procured for trial from tho pvn.c.pat iced merchants an all world. Tlie crop was over 71 tons to the acre. This trial was conducted by the Department of Agriculture at Moil. nn!h'a,ki (w report in Journal of Agriculture, 2'l.st An,2llst. 1916. on page 141). Nothing but the bff-t will satisfy us. If you'want to sow the ' Seeds „f'insist on. having Coopers Seed" "Procurable from seedsmen and) '■v. rrhants in practically every townii ftj Zealand. V. COOPER Ltd Wellington (T.nrgest grow et of Is in An |-ralaa:a).