THE BAY OF PLENTY.
|Mr W J. Palmer, late chief Gover- ) ■ W&'-.W fflwologist for the N«rth Ig- • I lancf, writing recently in ah agri- , i cultural journal, gave valuable and | disinterested testimony concerning the fruitgrowing and agricultural j ( possibilities of the Bay of Plenty. He describes the climate of the district as "the finest in New Zealand." All kinds of ioot crops, he states, grow well- Mangolds sown on the ' Government station last year took the leading pr37.es at all the winter exhibitions in the Dominion, and again this year at the winter show ■ fn Auckland, took first prize against | all enmpetstors. Maize is the prin- " j cipal crop grown. As much at? 120 I | bushels to the acre have been taken j this year. One paddock yielded close Jon 100 bushels to the acre. Dairying be?o!nin? s, fimriphlng irrluslry, 1 great measure supplied by Maoris, - of whom the managers speak well, crediting thtrn with being more cleanly than some of the Europeans.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9677, 29 December 1909, Page 4
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163THE BAY OF PLENTY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9677, 29 December 1909, Page 4
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