MANURED PASTURE.
Enough grass has been produced every day since September 14 by an Agricultural Department experimental area at Marton to carry eight or nine ewes to the acre, according bo a statement made to a body of visiting farmers at Marton by Mr A. H. Cockayne, Director of the Fields Division at Palmerston North. Only proper control and manuring could produce such results, he said. Highest pasture efficiency was reached when the herbage produced was consumed in leaf, noil allowed to go to the stem. These plots had produced 1401 b. of grass and clover per acre each day at a steady rate since September 14. Under proper control the usual flush of feed in October and November was not shown. Adjacent untreated plots produced but 1001 b. per acre per day. That was a 40 per cent, difference. ‘ Manured unmanured plots closely grazed were inspected, and they shewed no difference, but) Mr Cockayne said the manured portions had in three months produced several cwt. more feed. The effects of manuring were present but not seen.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 269, 3 January 1929, Page 1
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