PROFITABLE HERDS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5777, 4 March 1912, Page 6

PROFITABLE HERDS.

THE HI-SII SJLTvNESS

Speaking in the House of Kcpresetttat'ives liast week the ir^on. U\ Mackenzie referred to Weraroa. He showed that a cow for which the department paid £40 could be sold now for 350gns, which, with profits already made, would mean that the department would make £642 out of her. The milking herd at Weraroa cost less than £700. It \\ as now worth, . .-C2230 and, when the value of produce and young stock was addud, it mount tlntt the department could make £6000 out of it. tic would like to^ see ten thousand acres of those fruit lands which the ■department had created out of poor soil cut up into areas which would enable the city people to get Into God's fresh air. At W'aira-ngi. this had taken - place successfully, and the Government, by its experts, followed the fruit right into the market so as to show the best conditions. , A million acres of splendid land lay idle in the North Island owing to the cattle disease known as bush sickness, but he was sure that Mr Keakes, a Government officer. had almost obtained a solution oi the trouble. Jl so, it would mean an addition of five to fifteen miUiuiib sterling of wealth to tins country. There was also yo 0 d woiv to dcKJonstralo thu xilililv of pumice l<*inJt= ami tlu? regrassing of the Central Otago and Canterbury poor l.nu.'s There -were. 3000 experimental plots operating in the South Island.