TEN SHEEP TO THE ACRE.
« OX FLAX-STUEWN LAXBS. Ten sheep to tho aero anil nn grass paddocks is usually regarded in Now Zealand as a farmer's fable, but with no special form of intensive cultivation, save Unit of dried llax, it is a fact on I lie lands near ToUomaru. owned by Messrs. Seifcrt Bros., the well-known llax manufacturers. jS'ot only that, but it is a further fact, on the authority of one of the linn, that: at present ten sheep to the acre arc unable to cope with the fostijrowinß pastures, and the seylho-blnde and mower have to be brought in, in order to heap the areas fairly clear for their llax beds. The reason advanced for the prolific prowlh of grass is that Ihe dust from tho dried llax, replenished at short intervals, provides a most valuable manure.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1324, 30 December 1911, Page 6
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140TEN SHEEP TO THE ACRE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1324, 30 December 1911, Page 6
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