PAYABLE FARMS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 24 March 1920, Page 2

PAYABLE FARMS.

HANDSOME RETURNS. A Taranaki paper says it has been mentioned that- a dairy farmer in tho Kaponga district had made £l7 per ucW! out of his land, and he bad no special advantages over his fellowfarmers. It was also stated that a supplier' to tho Riverdalo factory, Mr Gridin, had done considerably better, lb- 1 armed 4S£ acres of first-class land, and from it he was paid for 12,8Ui!b of fat, which at 2s per lb equalled £I2BO. Allowing even a small margin for pigs, calves, worked out at roughly £27 per acre. Mr Griffin, of course, fanned intensely, and farm ed well, but it only again demonstrated that, from small areas of first-class Taranaki land, whereon lucerne, rent ‘Tops, etc., were grown, and where a pood class of dairy cow was kept and properly managed, a very good income indeed could be made. It is contended that with butter-fat at Is 6d per lb and good land at £1(0 per acre, a farju- r could do well if he farmed judiciously. The best dairy land in Taranaki is now selling at over £IOO per