NO COMPULSION ON FARMERS
Use Of Serpentine Superphosphate
(Special) DUNEDIN, February 23. As the outcome of a compromise reached at the last meeting of the National Council of Primary Production in Wellington, it was announced at a meeting of the Otago branch of the Farmers’ Union today that there would be no compulsion on farmers to use serpentine superphosphate. Thirty tons a week of serpentine were to be quarried at Mossburn over a trial period of three months, Mr A. C. Cameron said. The Government would have to decide on the price and probably would have to pay a subsidy, but the whole matter would remain in abeyance until the result of the three months trial was observed..
The chairman, Mr D. H. Cockburn, expressed satisfaction with the position, and the field superintendent of the Department of Agriculture, Mr J. W. Woodcock, said that the experiments would indicate that reverted superphosphate was worth a trial by farmers where ever possible, but it was the farmers themselves who had to decide the value of new features in agriculture.
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Southland Times, Issue 24986, 24 February 1943, Page 4
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