WORN-OUT GRASSLANDS
PLOUGHING WOULD MAKE THEM PRODUCTIVE (P.A.) PALM'BRSTON NORTH, May 10. As a. means of increasing production in the Dominion, the director of the grasslands division, Mr E. Bruce Levy, to-day advocated the ploughing of weed-infested, worn-out grasslands, of which there are some millions of acres, and the planting of crops for feeding cows. He told a conference of dairy factory managers that it should be looked upon as criminal to spread the depleted phosphate supplies on these pastures. Fertilisers should be confined to good grasslands and to land for cropping. Mr Levy said that Britain had increased her production from the land by ploughing up millions of worn-out acres, and as a result was now two-thirds self-supporting. He regretted that in New Zealand no rural economy had been worked out. The ploughing up of 200,000 acres in New Zealand ■would be nothing compared with the 2,000,000 acres brought under cultivation in Britain in each of the last three years.
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Evening Star, Issue 25172, 11 May 1944, Page 7
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