WAIKATO FARMER.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17974, 20 March 1930, Page 2

WAIKATO FARMER.

RETURNS FROM ABROAD.

DR. AFSFJET-rS IMP RESSiON 8 ■ WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Dr II E. Annell, of Malangi Waikato,'returned to New Zealand by the Ranmtiki, convinced that th- > minion can learn little from England or the Continent of Europe . - dairy production and the treatme i years Dr. Annett has been carrying out intensive researeh ° t hte property at Matangi, and Jg 5 several months abroad in%estimating farming conditions, the trea tm 6o TT and dairv production methods. ”1 S fes* & WSR to bulterfat production.

Dominion’s Advantages. k s ”« *• r* r ™ out Of doors [hQ erecting eliminates the neces . s ROS t buildings to bouse slock- 1 ■ RnK _ l?”'i ( ; > ™'«“ contS Vermont, l,,r ? c proportion ennt Of production. _ • . where farmers lan,i n f ~o „ 0 'u, i r»0 acres were %%S°J m the vicinity or tm * *«•* « oonccntralP‘l roods alone. “Another impmtant P . >V° gS w w T".? , J»w «- Sei ne b of maeliine. u.e.l h« , n - New economy of labour. but m Zealand can milk bO were England 1 *. * with the

“Se C of machine 3Grt hp^.f re wonderful miTneZJ' more wonderful In Jer ;«4s«>Ens S“ "'WSS? o/lhis 'co-operal’ve Sit throughout the Dominion 11^. same extent. Question of Tflarketing. “At the same time, New Zealand farmers wall have to look into their marketing. There are certain complaints in England that dairy produce landed in London from the Dominion in the off season is below quality., it is said that this arises because nuaer ’ placed on the market in, say, Scp--1 ember, October and November is probably made six or eight months previously. 1 think that probahlv some system of dating imported butter boxes would lead to at least a temporary improvement. What we will ultimately have to develop in New Zealand is all the year round milking, so that we -eau place produce on the market during all months of the year in mure or less even quantities.

“New Zealand farmers would nave to pav further attention to the treatment "of grass lands and soil, Dr. \nnett added. “They have been using superphosphate entirely in the past, and they have reached the stage where, having having taken so much out of the land, they have to consider more systematic manuring. The deficiency of lime in soils results in the production of grass with a low lime content. Since the New Zealand (jairv animal gets practically no fee except grass, the production of grass with a high lime content is of verj great importance. “Similar considerations apply to potash in -soils. In future New Zealand will have to turn her attention to a greater use of lime, and probably also of potash manuring. Wun the increase in the knowledge of resuits obtained in experimental work with sulphate of ammoir.-.i it is hkelj that the use of this substance, combined with superphosphate and nma. will bring about a very much bigger nroduction in agricultural produce.