HIGHER AGRICULTURE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 37, 3 July 1914, Page 8

HIGHER AGRICULTURE.

TUiAN'AKI I'AIIMEKS VIEW EX ri 1;l-MENTAL WOlUv.

A r i!:lL' TO .MUI'MAIIAKI. The \vc,:i ! nr was unkind on Wedne.-aay in . .ning, and an a result only thiriy-sevi i. <ii the sixty intend ing ,excnr-.iouisis joined the Turanaki Agricultural ii-1 \"s party visiting the .Moumahaki Jvtate Faun. Hut the weather at tlio faiui right, and had been for a < ! ;u or two, so that tin \isitors were al>! u to see in comfort wiiut tlircr was to -ecn. Tin- man- | nger, Mr Lonsdale, was . away, hut [ Messrs Kirkland and Hill did the honi or- m.bly, and facilitated the cmpiiricol' the notion-bunting fanners in iit-r.. vay. l>y far tile greatest interest wail..peed in the root crop e.vp. r.incut-, although, unfi rUniatcly, siin.c of the crops i:ad ben lifted and the actual result- not yet tabulated, llui, the look of the piots 1,1,1 its !-ti ry. It was cxicaiuc.l to the party that for six years past t-ierc had liceu adi iinit<- system of rotation of crop*. Tin- root clops verc sown in land wh/.-h hail been twice ploughed and h.avily manured, giving a return of 4(1 ton- and upwards per acre, as against t!ic it l or 1:2 mi, an acre secured by man,- farmer.- who Cunt I'll) ill thi.'juM'lvi's w'lii a -ingle ploughing in the sj>i'iiig and a ?ij»ht niamirial treatimnl. whilst the eo~t of t■ heavier >iop, inclusive of rates, rents and all incidentals, wa- only aboil os an acre, and ihe farmer's small, r yield co-t him !0s an acre. ]he nienibcrs of the party were interested in the e\cc!l<'iit mangolds grown, ■nine thc-'e being evni better than had bvn pl.uel on shi.\v in the Departmental exhibit at the shows. The rotation of crops—r. ot-. followed by «reals and an admixture of led clover (the latter giving a good after,natiU after til,, cereal- had been ,-iiti. tln-u pea; 0,. tar."., and afterwards lucerne ", M : V vM iUJil- demonstrated; -Mi Hill, who in the lucerne specialistn, a, ho, held is a h( ,, T( , o|u . ])i|t some cows ari doing great things at the pail, and tin- r<.cords were "scanned with inte ist. one imported Ayrshire having produced 4!17.1.5:b) of but-ler-fat in ']:}( days. I'nforlnmiiely. the time aliowcl in between the arrival and depart lire if the trains was all 1"0 short, and the party had to leave e" ! Ilrai: t hey would have liked, w"ih ,s anotl.'i argument lor (he ■ Illy i-.abli:i"MieUL of a mode; dairv linn in the f-lratford district, as recommended liy the conference of Taranaki dairy ojmpanies a vear or so i*"?'. "K'lition of the (rip to Mouinahuki on We,ln,-day w0.,1d be completWithout i'ef Tence (0 the kindness of the at! ention ni:<l hospitality extended to the ]«rty by the stall'.' /I he (rip, was undoubtedly an education, win, ,ii should be availed of 1 )V every fanner who <an manage to inin!wJr S ' tlli, V '' ,y