GROWING OF SEEDS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 63, 16 March 1933, Page 12

GROWING OF SEEDS

USE. IN SMALL FARM PLAN

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

PALMERSTON IST., This Day.

The Department of Agriculture, realising the possibilities o£ seed growing, is taking the initial steps to introduce the industry to the farming community. It is realised that seed growing, because of its high per-acre value, large family labour requirements, and low cost in equipment, is eminently suitable for the type of close settlement contemplated by the small farms plan, and a start is to be made during the coming season with swedes. Three 10-acre holdings have been chosen in the vicinity of Pajmerston North, representing different classes of land, isolated from other crops and within easy reach of the Plant Research Station whose mycological officers will give the crops the necessary supervision and the growers the required instructions. Three1 acres of each holding will be devoted to the swede seed crop. The seedling plants will be grown on the Plant Research area and will be distributed to. the growers for planting out in June or July, and "the seed crops will be harvested in the following 'January, or JFebruarjy . •"