The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1927. THE RETURN FOR GENEROUS TREATMENT

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1287, 22 December 1927, Page 4

The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette T HURS DAY, DECEMBER 22, 1927. THE RETURN FOR GENEROUS TREATMENT

Nature is prolifically generous to those who treat her well, and not a few of (he fanners of Feilding and (listrici. are to-day finding themselves well rewarded for their enterprise in replenishing their bits of earth with top-dressing. Ear too many ol: our pastures have been starved for years past. Much takeu off the pad dock, nothing put: back in return. Steadily through tin' years our far-

mers were being educated up to a realisation of the need for feeding their farms in return for their farms feeding tlmir stock, Then very opportunely came the war in fertiliser rales iii the north. Feilding fanners took advantage of the war and the drop in rates. Many lons of fertilisers wore bought and spread over our center of the earth. The remarkable and inevitable results are realised to-day in brighter and bettor pastures, sounder and more solid stock —and consequent enhanced prices secured for lambs, sheep and eat I to t hat have come off the refer! 1lised paddocks. The fertiliser waits over, but it enabled farmers to test for themselves the value of replenishing Lite earth, and it is assured now that top-dressing will continue to tie (tie permanent policy of our pastoral producers.