DOES TOP-DRESSING PAY TO-DAY?

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20828, 11 April 1933, Page 10

DOES TOP-DRESSING PAY TO-DAY?

FACTORS IN PASTURE MANAGEMENT. • Present low prices for wool, mutton, and dairy produce may lead to the impression that the topdressing of pastures in Canterbury is not as justifiable to-day as in normal times. That this is not a correct assumption is shown by the success that followed top-dressing with "Super" on a number of Canterbury farms last year—particularly where the land had been previously limed. The advantages of top-dressing were most pronounced when a large portion of the feed was conserved in the form of hay or ensilage to carry stock over the dry period and offset the scanty teed that followed the spring growth. By these means top-dress-A lg * g^ve highl y Profitable returns. A further important result will be manifested at the beginning of this ™ £ r * y hen i l will be found that dre , S , sed . areas the autumn 2 . Wl] ! extend several weeks longer than where top-dressinc has been neglected. The scanty feed emnhas^H dr * ffled ?,nU£V alu ? of this ex- •?« «. glowth f or winter feed it wni h LT e °J Ji eht sheep country &F A 2cw?'£r besftop-SJed^r ß land 7 s Ucwt of «'w^. WlCe a year wit h applications of "luper" fl ™S 3nm ately , ? in ™" n m Affnnf ' a . nd to en sure the full effect pastures should be eras* harrowed at least twice a yelr