West Coast Farming

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30155, 12 June 1963, Page 8

West Coast Farming

! Sir, —“Let’s Be Honest” i should practise that virtue— I honesty. The figures given | at Lincoln were factual. Toi day, after spending thousands i on bulldozing, about 66 per I of Waipuna is grassed. I I wish your correspondent’s I estimate of clear country I was correct. Westland soils I by New Zealand standards | are naturally fertile, but to [ your correspondent large daisies, onion weed, orchids, danithonia, moss, lichen, toI tara creeper, and manuka I regeneration are apparently emblems of fertility. Stock ! levels now are building fertility. Except with the dead bodies of stock, this was preI viously a rearguard action I with stock numbers falling | and weed and scrub growth | increasing. G. H. Ferguson's I diary states that the 1945 wool clip wais 19 bales. In I January. 1947. there were 21 I bales, but some of the ewes I shorn were from another | leasehold property, so a fair assumption is that the clip was again about 19 bales. I have the tiger by the tail I but your correspondent’s I head is in his mouth.— I Yours, etc., j GEO. K. FERGUSON. | Waipuna, June 6, 1963.