FAVOURED NORTH ISLAND
“The North Island has the greatest grassland climate in the world, and I say that after having visited at least 20 other countries,” said Mr. E. Bruce Levy, director of the Grasslands Division, to a meeting of farmers in the Bon Accord rooms on Tuesday night when talking in terms of the Dominion potential. He stressed the importance of clovers and special purpose pastures and their treatment.
At Te Awa, he said, trials showed how fertiliser was being wasted by its application to pastures that did not respond because of the absence of clovers. Pastures containing clovers proccd 12,0001 b. of dry matter per acre per annum after treatment with phosphate and lime. Check plots without clovers produced only 1500 to 20001 b. dry matter, although treated in a similar manner.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22891, 10 March 1949, Page 6
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