IMPROVING THE PASTURES.
LATE AUTUMN OPERATIONS. [r.Y TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.J THAMES, Wednesday. The low prices which ruled last spring as a result of the fertiliser "war ' proved a marked stimulus to demand and the beneficial effects of tho increased use ot fertilisers havo impressed tlv farmers. In tho Thames Valley farmers with a successful year behind them and another in prospect havo not been slow to invest liberal sums on the improvement of their pastures. Spring top-dressing is generally carried out extensively during thr months of July. August and September but in tho Thames Valley there is a movement in favour oi top-dressing in tho late autumn with quick-acting .litrocenous manures, thus ensuring abundance of feed in tho early spring and eliminating to n largo extent tho provision of supplementary feed. It is estimated that nearly one quarter of the whole of tho grass lands in tho Waikato, Thames Valley Hauraki Plains, Thames and Coromandel farming districts are regularly top-dressed in the Into autumn with quick-acting manures.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20080, 18 October 1928, Page 20
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