PASTURE IMPROVEMENT.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13100, 31 January 1936, Page 4

PASTURE IMPROVEMENT.

PLOTS TO BE SOWN LOCALLY. It was announced by Mr Jr. Freeman. secretary of the Wairarapa t Young Farmers’ Club at a meeting * of the Mangatainoka C lub last night that the Dept, of Agriculture would be willing to lay out an experimental plot in the district for the purpose of testing manurial treatment and pasture variation. The Department would supply the seed and manure and also attend to the pegging of same. He suggested that a j»iece >f It acres in a paddock of some five acres which required sowing down would do for the purj>ose. Tips would be marked and pegged out in 30 small plots, each ot which would he sown ill different grasses such as white ami red clover and dogtail and forms of rye. uitl treated with yai ied manure mixtures. The meeting decided to adopt the suggestion and ail endeavour will he made to secure a suitable section jn a handy locality. The chairman (Mr P. Cooper) announced that he had a six-acre paddock situated in a handy position to the road which could be utilised :or the purpose and its was agreed vo avail oti this offer.