LAND IN THE NORTH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 26 June 1912, Page 4

LAND IN THE NORTH.

Mr James Smith, of Otakeho, who hasduring the last year or two made several trips to the North of Auckland, and to the Waikato, has given a representative of the Star a few notes of his travels. He thinks that^ the best" land in both those districts is? excellent for dairying.* In the Waikato, however, as has often been said by experienced faxmers, thecouutry is patchy, and anyone in search of land requires to know what he is about. One of the fines* tracts that Mr ."smith came across is along the foot of the hills near Cambridge. There he found dairy farmers averaging £13 per cow at Is OJd per lb. for butter. This land is carrying a cow to two acres. It has a heavy, loamy, clay subsoil, with «P to eight inches of vegetable soil on top. Away from the hills the land gets poorer, and requires heavy manuring. * Rom Cambridge to Taupo Mr Smith - wa s much impressed with the qralrty of the land, especially the PukeremobJock. He says that he always carried a spade with him to test the subsoil, because "the land as a whole is very deceiving, except to one who knows land." While up north Mr Smith met Mr Messana, of Hamilton, who had oraviouslv farmed for many years near Manaia. Mr Messana.put in a lot of time with Mr Smith, and took him about to various parts of the district to see land. In conclusion, Mr Smith urges the young ir en to launch out and take up some of t;e unimproved land of the dominion, with work and enterprise, a youn^ man cnn do well, and soon be independent.