PASTURES TOO CLEAN?
WEEDS AND STOCK TROUBLES. An interesting suggestion that most pastures to-day were too clean, and that this was responsible for some of the farmers’ stock troubles, was made at a meeting of Poverty Bay farmers. Mr H. B. Bull said that stock did well on new bush burns, not because of good grass, but, he believed, because of a large percentage of annual weeds, which assisted the stock. A good feed of sow thistle, for instance, was as good as a dose of medicine, and he considered that farmers could have their pastures too clean. He had noted this particularly with his dairy herd. After a period of top-dressing with lime and superphosphate, leaving a pure grass sward, he had found cows slipping and,otherwise failing to breed, while the man who grazed his herd on rough paddocks appeared to have the best luck from breding.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1938, Page 3
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