HOW TO CROW LUCERNE.
/-M,r. fl. M'Laren, .of the Argentine, who' -is/ at present -.on a visit to New ttoalaiicl; is' «f ''■•n I pfn%h;tK!j;t* J lucet' I tie . may 'be g : rown with pro fft in"' many parts of the ©ominion, pavticularly .on river-bed flats, He informed a^.W.airarapa corres'pbildeiit 'thdvothfer : day thht ' he' had-'«d-visetl .Mr W. Coiiper to ' sow aboiit twenty acres near the : Ruamahang-a iliytev; and this Mv Cooper has promised to : do.; : . The see'et is to. l)e sown m September 0r October for '"the, spring faitis, and cattle, may be ipuf'upon it m Decehibei 1 , -when the height of the crop is about three inches. The field should t hen be" shut up/ and' c"Ut tn March, nfter which it 'should be si jbeked lightly a'ricr but' again m November. Lucerne wlir la«tViiv : a: f JieTd fdF fully twe^ity years, "and it ■ is * admirable-: for cattle. After' two years' fair it jwill support* cattle better almost than any other pasture, /f ho roots . grow from .4 to 20 feet, and Mr M'Lare'h has "seen them as ihick as -a .mail's 1 wrist.*- It is not suited for rocky , or .stony soil.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11248, 11 April 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)
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194HOW TO CROW LUCERNE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11248, 11 April 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)
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