AERIAL TOP-DRESSING

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 77, Issue 6975, 8 October 1948, Page 6

AERIAL TOP-DRESSING

STATE EXPERIMENTS URGED KAWHIA FARMERS MUCH INTERESTED Reports of the success achieved by aerial top-dressing have attracted the attention of, not to say intrigued, many farmers in this district, especially in Kawhia South. While the possibilities of further developments in this new departure are eagerly discussed in view of its seemingly great possibilities in high hill country a Te Anga farmer has sent in a precis of an address on the subject given by Mr L. T. Daniell, of Miasterton, at this year’s meeting of sheep farmers at Massey College. “ I regard aerial top-dressing as a ! proper means of doubling and treb- ! ling our rural population. There can I be no better way of increasing the national income, the national wealth and national security, which are the best guarantees of ensuring the solvency of the national structure,” stated Mr Daniell, who added that farmers could help in forwarding the aerial top-dressing venture by (1) urging the immediate dispatch overseas of technical personnel to investigate suitable aircraft in the United Kingdom and the United States, >vith power to purchase; (2) planning of the huge supply problem, to include investigation of methods of cartage to the many aerodromes of raw materials for the manufacture of superphosphate on the espot; (3) the growing and harvesting on a large scale of suitable seed, such as subterranean clover- and (4) formation of special committees of interested farmers to assist with all experiments before the arrival of a suitable experimental aircraft.