NGAROMA LAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 108, 10 May 1927, Page 6

NGAROMA LAND.

I don't think the position of the Xgaroms settlers is any different from that which would be the position of the great majority of Waikato and King Country settiers if they did not treat their land, that is, top-dress it. I have known several parts of the country where cattle have wasted away and where young cattle have died on account of something lacking in the feed. Yet this country was never described as "bush sick* or "sick." Why, then, should Xgaroma be described as "sick" any more than any other part that needs top-dressing! I would suggest that the settlers top-dress, and until tins is done and proved useless, then the term "sick" is out of place. I believe money caa be made out of it yet, if it is treated rightly and fenced into small paddocks, keeping the growth always short, young and sweet. If, the settlers have not the money they ought J to approach the Government on those lines foe hd P« OBSERVER, j Otorohanga. ; [Our correspondent appears not to under* stand the position fully. It has not bees definitely proved that top-dressing will cars the ills of the Xgaroma soil, which is part of an extensive belt that appears to have peculiar deficiencies in soil content. Even if manuring would give Xgaroma soil what it' needs, the cost of putting the manure on tit* I farms is considered prohibitive.—Ed.]