ARGICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17032, 13 December 1918, Page 5

ARGICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS

ffilAL AREAS AT DARGAYILLE. Tho farm experiments conducted under ill 1) auspices of the Dafgiivillo Farmers' Jnion and the manual and technical jranch of the Auckland Education Board lave now assumed definite shape. For some months past preparatory cultivation las been carried out bj*4he experimenters, Messrs. Cave, Hay, and Col more Williams, ind the sowing o"f the various crops is to be undertaken at once. Tho main object) is .to ascertain what crops aro best suited to provide fodder for dairy stock during the lean seasons of the year. -Mr. Hay's land is heavy kahikatca swamp, which has just been reclaimed from the bush - . and ploughed for the first time in October. Trials of such fodder crops as millet, maize, sorghum, sudan grass and marigolds are being made. Mr. Cave's land is, lighter and . has worked down to a better tilth. Here two varieties of lucerne, Hunter River and Marlborough have been sown in uninoculated soil, together with basic super at about 4cwt per acre. On? this area maize . (seed and • fodder varieties)carrots, swedes, mangolds and rape are .undergoing trial. The effect of light and heavy dreejir ings of ground Te Kuiti limestone is also being tested by applications of dressings of scwt and ,15cwt per aero to' each half of whole area-. Mr. Colmoro Williams' property is i situated on the gum lands to the west of Dargavilie. Five different methods af establishment of pastures are being, tried . in acre lots, Two seed mixtures; with cocksfoot as the predominant grass aro being 4 tried under various conditions, 1 in conjunction with different manures, in which lime and phosphates are the chief ingredients. In all these trials, careful accounts of all expenditure arid work done are being kept so that whatever useful results they provide will life available for practical ■• application to large areas of alluvial swamp and the gum lands of the North of Auckland. ;? V,'. 1 t MR. WILLIAM POWER TELLS HOW CUTICURA HEALED RASH* " ? " A rash came on my legs,and it gradu- , ally worked aup into , ray back 'arid neck and then to my face and head, until I was nearly crazy with - the itch arid : heat of it. It came out in blotches, and the skin was very' much inflamed. t " I.'; could not keep from catching it; even in my sleep I used to tear the parts affected, arid, my ' clothes used to «tick to my. back.- 7 " I then sent for a free sample or Cuticura> and after the first week I : noticed an improvement, so I bought some mors Cuticura Soap and Ointment which healed (Signed; William Power,' Ballieston, via Rushworth, Vic., Juno 22, 1917." , Soap to cleanse and ointment .to heaL "R. Towns and Co., Sydney, N.S.W." Sold by l dealers throughout the world. *