NEW PASTURE PRACTICE
LIGHT LAND FARMING ' SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT^* Revolutionary changes in light land farming practice in Canterbury are foreshadowed by the success of experiments being carried out at present at Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, with subterranean clover as a permanent pasture. The experiments, which are being made on full scale, indicate that it will be possible to eliminate nearly all the expensive agricultural work that makes light land farming unprofitable at present. It is estimated that there are in Canterbury alone about 1,000,000 acres of the type of land which is at present being developed by Lincoln College at Asbley Dene, and there is very much more in other parts of New Zealand. The experiments have shown that not only is the most expensive part of arable farming eliminated, but that production is increased, and the general health of stock improved. This type of farming, with irrigation, is considered to offer almost limitless possibilities for land which, with the recent trend towards greater expenses in production, has become a serious problem to its owners.
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Franklin Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 140, 30 November 1938, Page 6
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174NEW PASTURE PRACTICE Franklin Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 140, 30 November 1938, Page 6
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