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MUST GET MORE FROM LAND Palmerston North, November 26. “I am confident that the experiments being carried out are .worth while and of value from a £ s. d. point of view,” said the Minister of Lands and Agriculture (Hon. G. AV. Forbes) speaking at a held day held at the Agricultural Department s experimental area at Marton yesterday. He recognised, he said, the importance of the work being carried out by the department in getting together information for farmers. There was no doubt that a great deal had yet to be learnt from that patient investigation that the farmer could not 'do. The Dominion was entering on a stage of farming when it was dependent upon science and manures. •J ’ • , , ~. “AVe must get more from the land than we have done because we have to face greater competition, and the only way to combat that is to increase the return per acre,” he said.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 54, 27 November 1929, Page 6
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