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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8748, 2 June 1914, Page 4

No less than 542 experimental plots have been put down during the present season in districts north and south of Auckland, Thames, and Tanranga. Mr G. de Baylis, fields in-, structor for the North Island, in a report presented to the provincial executive of the New .Zealand Farmers' Union, states that lucerne was grown in 113 plots, maize in 48 plots, mangolds in 34, silver beet in 23, millets in 30, pasture renovation in 14, carrots in 14. and grass varieties in ,26. Mr de Baylis emphasises the need .with any soils, but especially with poorer soils, for systematic cultivation, rotation, and manuring. He also suggests that groups of plots near the centre of the district would he of .more use than small plots scattered throughout the district. The fields instructor adds, that in his opinion temporary demonstration areas are most needed in this Dominion.