DAIRY FARMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8491, 20 July 1907, Page 6

DAIRY FARMS.

Some of the finest dairying country in the Waikato is advertised for sale in this issue, viz, the Bruntwood Estate, which is so well and favourably known to the farming community. This property, which is to be offered for sale by Mr T. Mandeno Jackson, on Friday, August 9th, contains 1,000 acres of rich alluvial land, of which 320 acres are subdivided into level paddocks in the highest state of cultivation, having been under cultivation for the last twenty-five years. There are also about 180 acres of rich I'-ihikatea swamp, which have been expensively drained and sown with the best English grasses and clovers, thereby supplying abundance of feed for stock during both the summer and winter time. All this has been subdivided into farms ranging from 30 acres to 150 acres in extent, and as the existing fences have been utilised as boundaries, there will be no trouble and expense in that line, and purchasers will be able to start milking straight away. The value of this 3 property can be easily gauged from the fact that 60 cows pastured on 120 acres last season returned over £l2 per cow, and this is all within two and a half miles of one of the most successful dairying factories one can supply, viz., the Hautapu Cooperative Dairying Company. There is every conceivable convenience and contrivance for labour-saving purposes, and water is carried to all parts of the house and farm by a ram system. Apart from its value from a dairying point of view, the homestead, which contains 11 large and lofty rooms, would make an ideal gentleman's country residence, replete a3 it is with every convenience, and providing as it it does sport and pleasure of every kind such as shooting, deer-stalking, golf,. - tennis, etc., close at hand. The Waikato hounds are kennelled on the premises. The garden and j iantations contain many specimens or rare old trees and there is also a very fine orchard. All this is within easy distance of Auckland, being within 35 minutes drive of Cambridge, one hour of Hamilton, and one mile from the Bruntwood railway station. It will be gathered from the above that a rare chance is given to any one with a small capital to invest in a firstclass farm, especially as the terms are exceptionally easy, putting it within the reach of all.