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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16869, 5 February 1929, Page 4

"I spent £3OOO on manures last year, and I intend to spend £SOOO in a similar way this year,'' - said a Feilding district fanner to the press. "As the result of niy enterprise last year, I clipped a very substantial increase in -wool and carried more sheep and cattle. There is no doubt it pays to manure the pastures." Noxious weeds and rabbits are diminishing in Raglan County as development proceeds, and as the" land/ becomes more valuable as the result of cultivation. Ragwort is seldom met with, while furze and blackberry arc giving way to pastures in all parts of the district. The high prices ruling for rabbitskins have created a demand by rabbitcrs for country on which to work and the thoroughness with which the trapping is being done has been beneficial to the .farmers. Generally Speaking the farmers in Raylan County have done well this season. Excellent hay crops havo been grown and largo quantities of ensilage havo been stored away for winter fodder. In all parts of tho district good crops of turnips have been obtained. The stock are looking well and splendid business has been done, with fat lambs.—Auckland Herald.