GOOD LUCERNE CROP.
PRODUCTIVE DRAINED SWAMP (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) MORRINSVILLE, Friday. Farmers interested in lucernc growing would find much to interest them on Mr. J. J. Patterson's large estate at Te Puninga, 10 miles from Morrinsville. One paddock of 13 acres of three-year-old lucerne is just coming into flower, and will be cut for hay shortly. In the centre of the paddock is an ensilage stack 12 yards in diameter, which was made from the first cut taken off the paddock 011 December 5, after it had been shut up for two months. The present crop is waist-high all over the pr.ddock, and some stems are the height of a man.
This large paddock is a convincing answer to those who say lucerne will not do well 011 drained swamp land. Ten years ago or so the land was covered in flax and scrub, and it has been used for dairying for only four seasons.
Two more paddocks, each of six acres, were sown down in lucerne on the estate in November, and the young plants are now about a foot high and will be ready for mowing for the first time in about three weeks' time. The seed was sown at the rate of 201b to the acre.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17, 21 January 1933, Page 10
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