IMPRACTICABLE.
According to the Chairman of the Canterbury Fruitgrowers' Association, the proposal of the Government to experiment in private orchards is impracticable. He stated at a meeting of the Association that the Department of Agriculture would supply the trees if a grower would give an acre of land. He pointed out that land at Papanui would cost about £IOO per acre, and the Department would probably supply two or three of every kind. It would be five or six years before the owner of the property would see any result, and then he would have about 200 vaiieties of fruit on the acre, some good and some bad. The land would be useless to him during the time the experiment was carried out, and probably at the end of it the majority of the trees would be valueless. "We must have another try for an experimental station," he added.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9673, 11 December 1909, Page 4
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149IMPRACTICABLE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9673, 11 December 1909, Page 4
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