FARM WORK IN MAY
Maize picking- commenced. Plough now areas intended for potatoes. If out of pasture, skimplough and work top with discs and cultivators and then plough deeply. This ensures the least amount of weeds and thorough rotting into good manure of the old grass. Check over early seed potatoes, looking particularly for blind eyes. Those pastures needing lime should be dressed (his month, the herbage being close grazed before dressing. During or after heavy rain peg courses for new drains. —Dept, of Agriculture, Gisborne.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22626, 1 May 1948, Page 8
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86FARM WORK IN MAY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22626, 1 May 1948, Page 8
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