WAIORONGOMAI.
Mr Murphy’s farm at Waiorongomai i is an object lesson to those who think agriculture is played out. Those who 1 have lived as long in the colony as I, j will remember the old system of Wai- I •kato farming, riding to sale after sale buying and selling cattle on bilk, any profit swallowed up by discount, horse and man fed and At least half of Mr MSi-ghy’s farm was swamp through ‘ which neither man nor beast could get. By an intelligent system of drainage he has made all this available; the drains show that the depth of vegetable loam is practically inexhaustible. In fact I have seen a large proportion of Waikato lands from Raglan to here and Alexandra to Mercer, and I have never seen land approaching to this swamp in depth or richness or soil; it is an ideal maize land,- and is well worthy of a visit by those who wish to know what the intelligent application of capital even on a- limited scale, to land can do in improving its capabilities.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1710, 30 January 1895, Page 2
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178WAIORONGOMAI. Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1710, 30 January 1895, Page 2
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