STONY LAND
A PROPOSED EXPERIMENT. (Per Press Association —Copyright). GERALDINE, July 11. A proposal for a machine which would convert stony land for farmers was out lined by Mr C. L, Lynn in a report to the Geraldine branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. Mr. Lvnn said he had had an interview with Mr. T. G. Beck, district engineer of the Public Works Department, on the possibilities of such a scheme. Mr.' Beck said that he had given the matter some thought aiid was quite sure that the job could.be done, and at a reasonable price. He estimated the cost at between £2 and £3 an acre. The idea, Mr Lynn continued, was to build a machine on the lines of a giant potato-digger which would lift the whole of the soil from below ploughing depth, put it through rotary screens taking out the stones and crushing them and returning the crushed stone and soil to the ground. Mr Beck considered that crushing the stone and returning it to the land would be a definite improvement on carting it off, as stony land was known* to be on the average several degress warmer than clean land. This warmth should certainly be retained and the mechanical effect of the crushed stone on the soil should be of considerable advantage.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1940, Page 8
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