Farm Drainage

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18763, 20 July 1935, Page 13

Farm Drainage

PERTAIN aspects of farm drainage are referred to in the latest issue of the Journal of Agriculture. First is the fact that the returns from certain sound practices, such as the use of fertiliser or of good seed, are at times much smaller than they would be were those practices applied to welt-drained land. In the next plaCe, drainage could often be improved materially, OVOn though it would not be made neatly perfect, hi a comparatively small cost —in some, cases. For instance, tlie drainage of certain wet parts which Catch the moisture from larger areas would gitfe benefit, out of all proportiohs to its cost. A further matter worthy of note is that money may readily bo wasted on drainage unless it is both , well planned and well executed. Though

drainage is a relatively simple matter it is not so simple as to be without pitfalls to the inexperienced, and so those without experience, ns a eommonsense measure, should seek guidance based on experience.. Still another matter that calls tor note is embodied in the view that all other effort towards improvement should be deferred until the drainage is rectified. This is faij-ly commonly reflected in the attitude that topdressing is inadvisable until the land has been drained.