BEET CULTURE IN THE WAIKATO.
<By Telegraph.—Own Correependent.) ' '" -■••■'• -v "■ - I r . HAMEDTpNi this day. • The Waikatb Beetgrowers' Association;',. met Mr E. Clifton yesterday afternoon, and requested that ,a trial' in beet* growing on' the four-course system should be.made, on the Ruakura Farm. Mr Clifton replied that beet had been already grown bh the farm, and samples were nojv in, Wellington for analysis. It was a question whetliev".ihe "extra Quality of the sugar beet compensated fon the extra quantity of mangbld* that cpuld, .:be/.gi'Q\y.n, ~boet: fcqxured • longer period of He point* ed out the difficulty of obtaining a fair test for. feeding .dairyi stocky as atrflrst, when the roots ripened, the factories I dosed down. ';-':They. ; required to y be fed off immediately they were harvested. He would experiment with- as many varieties as possible, and suggested, grass, beet, a catch crop;: and- oats as the most suitable -rotation.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 158, 4 July 1906, Page 5
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148BEET CULTURE IN THE WAIKATO. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 158, 4 July 1906, Page 5
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