ROOT CULTIVATION
INTERESTING LOCAL FIGURES ‘ The area devoted to the swede and turnip crop in New Zealand amounts to over 400,000 acres and is greater than that devoted to any other arable crop. Respective figures for the central plateau—embracing the Putaruru, Tokoroa and Rotorua districts —and the Waikato and King Country covering the Waikato, Waipa, Raglan, Otorohanga, Waitomo and north Matamata counties are:—Total area of swedes and turnips, 2700 acres, 38,300 acres; percentage of Dominion average, 0.6, 9.0; acreage devoted to swedes, 2400 acres, 35,200 acres; to yellow-fieshed turnips, 100 acres, 1550 acres; to white-.fieshed turnips, 200 acres, 1550 acres; percentage devoted to swedes, 90, 92; to yellow-fleshed turnips, 3,4; to whitefleshed turnips, 7, 4.
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Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1743, 29 June 1936, Page 5
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115ROOT CULTIVATION Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1743, 29 June 1936, Page 5
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