PUMICE COUNTRY.
An experiment recently carried out in the pumice country indicates that control of grass, never letting it get away, is, together with complete fertilisation, the true solution of successfully establishing farms on these areas. Hitherto, farms have been established on a large scale, and therefore intensive methods have been out of the question, but it is the intensive method that is required. Grass control, good fertilisation and the heavy stocking that comes with rotational grazing are absolutely necessary. Cost of transport of fertilisers is a drawback to development of the pumice country, and many now regard the stoppage of the RotoruaTaupo railway as a bad mistake.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3447, 24 March 1932, Page 7
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108PUMICE COUNTRY. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3447, 24 March 1932, Page 7
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