How to Improve Bush Land
■» Mr Fred. Better, who owns fifty acres of land on Block VI, opposite the Horowhenua Village Settlement, • last year resolved to fell, burn, log up, and sow with grass. He did so, and during the winter he saw that the thistles did not encroach. It will interest our readers to learn the result. They will read, mark, learn, and scratch their pates. If some do not try a similar experiment we shall be surprised. It shows how profitable land may become directly the bush s clown and grass sown. Mr Better has made a profit of £151, and the land is improved very much in value. We give the figures in the hope that others may take heart and sow ancl reap in like manner : —
Cr. Fifty acres meadow foxtail grass seed, 13,0-10 lbs at 7|d per lb ... £421 11 8 Meadow foxtail grass is finding favor with settlers on this coast, as they believe it is good grass for getting quality and quantity of milk. — Farmer. ____________________ mm ___ mm __.
Dr £ s d Felling fifty acres bush at 24s per acre ... GO 0 0 Logging-up same at 10s 6d per acre 26 5 0 Grass seed at Gs per acre ... 15 0 0 Weeding and cuttingdown thistles, 2os 4d per acre ... ... G3 6 8 Reaping, threshing, and cleaning seed... ... 106 0 0 Profit balance ... 151 0 0 £421 11 8
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Feilding Star, Volume XXII, Issue 165, 15 January 1901, Page 4
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