EXPERIMENTAL AGRICULTURE.
WORK IN THE STRATFORD DISTRICT.
There are in the Stratford district some lifty-seven farmers co-operating with the Department in experiment work. There are over 90 plots varying nl size from l-nciv up to one acre. The work is,not performed as in school garden plots by hand, but with the irdinary implements of the farm, i he trials chiefly deal with the growing >f fodder crops for summer and winter I airy feed purposes,. Several plots ol • ucerne have been established, and
.'armors are in some cases now putting in farther area:;, the experiment ■ plot, laving taught them the value oi this -odder, Ensilage crops and the making of ensilage is another feature ol he work carried on hy the AgricultnrU Department amongst the fanners, md a .demonstration in this direction .nil pfobably lie given in the district, r’ractcally all the plots in the Strutrird distinct are being carried on by .'araiers on their own farms,' the only .'XcepiitJn being two .L-acre plots in j;reen unahurhig, the scheme for which, us well as the seeds and manures, vere supplied by the, fields instructor ,t Palnicrsion North to Mr Ellis, the igricultura! instructor for tire- N'mv Plymouth Board, to "whom also were supplied some 39 samples of various seeds for small plots as well as manures an'd other material. The Agricultural Department has therefore renlerod a fair amount of assistance- to the local plots at the Stratford School. The Various co-operative plots round strut lord are, of course, only an item in tlie work of the Department in farmers’ experiments. Co-operative plots lire to be found in practically every district of the North Island, and considering that the Department’s rork in -this direction is somewhat Uindieapped by the want of the necessary ; assistants to supervise and reOrd the work undertaken by, the farmers, much useful work has been accomplished.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 1, 4 December 1915, Page 8
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309EXPERIMENTAL AGRICULTURE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 1, 4 December 1915, Page 8
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