NOTHING NEW.
Farmers cannot have failed to notice how soon pasture land insufficiently grazed deteriorates or goes wild (writes an English authority). The man with a plenty of stock maintains the quality of his pastures; the idle field becomes a waste. Our rich pastures have become so through good management; and a grass field is always generous for any manure it receives. One of the oldest adages among graziers is that "grass should be a day old for a sheep and a week old for a bullock." Good graziers have always shifted their animals around frequently to ensure a young bite; and have employed mixed animals, so that what one would not graze down the other would. Alb however, have 'not been skilled; some of those with skill have not always been able to purchase sufficient stock; so that in one way or another grass land often deteriorates, and much has never given half the return it might have done under skilled management.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3447, 24 March 1932, Page 7
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163NOTHING NEW. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3447, 24 March 1932, Page 7
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