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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 10, 4 August 1930, Page 5

r Mr J. M. Smith stated at Saturday's annual meeting of the Stratford Demonstration Farm Society that th e policy of reducing the cropping area to a minimum and paying more car e and attention to pastures and their management, as laid down some few years ago hau been adhered to. Of the 140 acres comprising the farm only four acres \ were now under th e plough for the purpose of growing supplementary fodder. Nowadays, said Mr. Smith, with weeds and diseases so prevalent, and with labour costs so high, the growing of these crops, from an economic aspect, might possibly be ,Unsound. mx .