TOP-DRESS WITH SURPLUS WOOL MONEY.

Shannon News, 2 December 1924, Page 2

TOP-DRESS WITH SURPLUS WOOL MONEY.

FARMER’S WISE DECISION

Being curious as; to wliat would happen to the surplus money which the farmers are receiving just now, representative of the Feilding Star put the question to a wool grower. The grower* had received close on 30d per lb. for that portion of his clip offered at Wellington. “There is no doubt some of the farmers wiljl spend their surplus money in pleasure,” replied the. farmer, “but I am guing to spend mine on top-dressing, i bat is the thing. Plain instances were given of the benefit, of top-dressing.the pastures, by the farmer, , who had had quite enough experience to satisfy him. In one case' the had top-dressed a paddock and then left, the gate between mat an adjoining; paddock lopen, the second paddock not having been treated. The sheep went into the topdressed paddock and did not go back again, though the. gate has. never been closed.

Further pursuing the subject of the high prices for wool, the pressman made reference to a land boom as a possible danger. The farmer thought not. The land boom of a few years ago, he. pointed out,’was caused by the dairy farmers getting a high price for butter. R was. not the sheep man who made the boom, nor would tbe high wool prices have that effect.