Fertility of Taupo Soil.
"In connection ■with the development of volcanio soils, the whole area of country covered by the Taupo deposits must be regarded with some suspioion in view of the inoidence of bush-sickness at at least three points widely separated," stated Mr T. Rigg in a lecture before the Wellington Philosophical Society on the soils of the centre of the North Island. The lecturer added: "In seleeted localities in this sector the carrying capacity of pastures sown to English grasses and clovers and topdressed with superphosphates has been notably high, and if the bogey of bush-sickness oould be deflnitely removed there is' little question that very large areas of the Taupo deposit could he successfully f&rmed."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 14, 8 September 1931, Page 2
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118Fertility of Taupo Soil. Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 14, 8 September 1931, Page 2
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