A CONTRAST IN SEASONS.
TARANAKI AND WAIKATO* „ . f. Earlier Dairying. Commenting on a visit paid toTaranaki at the end of last week, Mr. F. H. Anderson, chairman of the Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., said that he -was struck with the remarkable difference between the average pastures in Taranaki and the Waikato. Without doubt the earlier growth in Waikato is to a certain extent due to more liberal top-dressing, but climatic conditions also have been largely rei sponsible this year. There is no | growth of grass anywhere in Tara- i naki, and the general experience at I the factories is that the tests are j lower than they have been for many I years. This is accounted for by the j lack of grass and the consequent I feeding on almost entirely hay and I ensilage. . The remark of one farmer to Mr. Anderson was that it had rained j every day since the earthquake. ' ' It would thus seem that local dis- [ trict farmers, as usual, are faring j better than in most places. There is jno doubt that, as regards dairying, ! the Waikato climate takes a lot of i beating anywhere.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 306, 19 September 1929, Page 6
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192A CONTRAST IN SEASONS. Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 306, 19 September 1929, Page 6
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