DERELICT AREAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1941, Page 6

DERELICT AREAS

NOW IN GOOD PRODUCTION. i — I DEVELOPMENTS IN SUSSEX. Earl De La Warr, former president <>f the Board of Education, ami for five years Parliamentary Secretary t<» the Minister of .Agriculture, ‘his, week told how he had made a profit out of "derelict land," Nineteen years ago hi- took over 1 acres at Wilhyhmn. Su: -sex. .A;-art ft. m| growing 20 or 30 acres of com and] •dlordlng a little grazing L.r l.Wi .-Jimp! and. store cattle out part of the] year, it produced nothing but thistle-:.! ragwort, biackm:. rabbits and d< Today gruws 2(»0 acre; of amble i crops, carries 120 Jersey cattle. 20 Welsh Black cow.-. and tlteir calv--. . ...' an average of .100 sheep thia ugh< | the year In it former state the Laid I was worth 2.6 d or 5s per acre to j Today rent would bo che. p a' 2" For !;> •.<,<•■ Lord Dr La Wo: are-: timed the -Oil V. .th luce, J.... pip... ' abates and potash. He managed t .mntrnl lite ragwort and brae ,>■*:, but I wild clove; grew m then place Them ;r., a . •?.ere still f p< - ~ <m * n and I here w,, k never .. good feed I.<r the j I tatih* front the end of Muy, The r:lere.;tmg thing w. I >rd Det ; „i Warr ■.id. "that I r.td r ■ - '.'him I merely tried to rei:o'.'.i‘>- the; trass. The farm nnHirnied to gn»w. '■ .•.sir grayfind Imc money E- ’ y- ' Ig .. Ind mted the :■ t- th -* ■■ meth d ■ >£ gup thi :" : nd i •""" ' - ■PI mghm,! u•; >c < >'d : ’ - ~, • i ■- n : s i = o -w - p -.1 ; . . ... .s *!