AUCKLAND EXHIBITION.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE'S DISPLAY.
' In connection with the exhibit of the Department of Agriculture at the Auckland Exhibition, the Fields and Experimental Farms Division, which superintends the exhibition work of the Department, has laid out a miniature demonstration farm in the grounds adjoining the Department's court. Over half an acre of land has been set apart for the purpose, and this has been terraced to provide the necessary level areas. In all there will be 150 plots,, each measuring Bft by sft. These enable about three hundred different varieties of grasses, clovers, forage and root crops, as well as many plants of economic value, to be inspected by visiting farmers. The surrounding borders have been utilised for an instructive demonstration in native trees and shrubs, soni3 sixty varieties having been planted. A display of over fifty specimens of conifer? o'js trees and shrubs is also being made.
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Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 5 December 1913, Page 3
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149AUCKLAND EXHIBITION. Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 5 December 1913, Page 3
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