NGAKURU BLOC[?]

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 371, 4 November 1932, Page 4

NGAKURU BLOC[?]

PRODUCTION RE( REMARKABLE INCREAS YIELD ON PUMIQ .LAND RESULTS OF DEVELOP/ In view of the Government1 ion to proceed with the deve of the Ngakuru block, recenti tion in regard to the remarka duction advance made over ti is particularly interesting. : Figures prepared hy the. ment of Agriculture indicate; the month of Septemher theto duction of butterfat over the developed pumice country onf kuru and Horohoro blocks i! the Guthrie , settlement, r eaci extremely satisfactory total oi Ibs. Less than three years ag stated, the production, from ti area was under 5001bs. of f month. This is a convineijig stration of the results which obtained from the develop!

pumice land and an answer eritics wlio have; decried the i ing carried out in this directii waste of money., . ■ . ' . All the cream from this i going to th'e N.Z. Dairy Co's. at' 'Ngongotaha , and. is largj sponsible for the remarkable i in the output . of that factory the past two years. * Oue of -the most productivi in this district is the depai demonstration farm on No. 11 Ngakuru. This farm at preser! ing worked p.urely and simp| commercial prop'osition, and ii ing over a cow to the acre, growth of feed over the wlic; is exceptionally good and at j 83 cows are being milked oni of 73 acres. ■ . . In conversation with a "Po presentative yesterday, Mr. ( gliesh, fields instructor for tfe rua district, stated that the res: tained from the work at Ngak more than satisfactory and 4 monstrated unmistakably that proper treatment, pumice coib definitely a payable propositic Dalgliesh expressed the opinic at its present stage of devele the Ngakuru country would c cow to the acre from October t with another acre per cow for feed. The present pasture on No.1 Mr. Dalgliesh considered, was 70 per cent. better than at the time last year. The growth of r now predominant and the overj of clover, which previously oc ed some trouble, was now si The pasture was consolidatiri season and he considered wa still further improved next ye$ In addition to the inilking the demonstration farm is also ing 23 head of* dry stock, 'eight ing sows, f our boars and 34 s: The^remainder of the block ha suh-divided into six farms whic expected will shortly he thi'owi for seleetion. Af present a pori this area is being worked on a milking basis and is contrihiS considerahle quota to the agg butter-fat production for the i