GREAT VALUE OF LUCERNE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1930, Page 15

GREAT VALUE OF LUCERNE.

LORD BLEDISDOE’S EXPERIENCE. Interesting comments on the value of grasses in dairying were made by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, at the smoke concert, tendered him by. the Dairy Division of the AVaikato "Winter Show Association. Lord Bledisloe said they had been told" that the narrow stemmed kale was an exhausting crop, but it should be remembered that no crop that was reasonably remunerative should be regarded as unduly exhausting. As an agricultural enthusiast who had travelled th© world probably mofe than any other such, he could speak earnestly. of the immense value of lucerne. This grass -was in time of drought undoubtedly' the farmers’salvation. In Argentina and th© middle west of Canada and th© United States, where there was as much as six months of drought, it was possible to have from four t© six crops from the surface out of the use of lucerne. _ . “There may be advantages rn the Warkato,” said His Excellency, “which render lucerne a relatively unattractive crop and I sc no reason in this district why’you should change your grasses. In ease any farmers her© have tried lucerne and failed, I may state that I have mad© unsuccessful experiments m the last five years, but have at last succeeded in discovering the leal value of this grass.”

rotational grazing. . EXPERIMENT AT MANAWARU. One of the most interesting exhibits at the Waikato Winter Show was, the New Zealand Herald states, a model of Mr. J. Ward’s farm at Manawaru. The model was shown in the Agricultural Department’s section. For the last three years, members of the department’s Instructional staff have been' carrying out experiments In nitrogenous manures on the- property, model’depietsi a farm .closely sub-.