TO IMPROVE STOCK.
Uruguay (has set aside £l-3,000 for prizes ito ,b> awarded to sheep /farmers who have clone- xacm to improve their stock. Not. only tlri? ■. e stock-rais-ers of the country encouraged by ithoso prizes, Ibut there are also.-some compulsory Jaws with" regard to .agricultural dnterefets in general. For example, all ranich,,owaiers are required to plant 'five trees per hectare (2471 ■acres), and to plant ,I.,per 'cent, of their randies in .forage cirops. Failure to comply this • law ■is punished, by a fine equal rto one-fourth of Ithe land tax for whkh the land is assessed. Tjheire -will also be a prize competition! for -tree-planting and for cultivated (forest crops. There are no iforesite in Uruguay. Firewood is scarce, and generally is supplied by the ibus'hes ;whieh grow along the river banks. Alb trees for planting purposes are imported from abroad.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10615, 23 April 1912, Page 4
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142TO IMPROVE STOCK. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10615, 23 April 1912, Page 4
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