"FARMING" THE LONG PADDOCK

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 5507, 13 January 1914, Page 4

"FARMING" THE LONG PADDOCK

The "long paddock" as they call the roads in the country with their luxuriant growth of grass may by judicious management be made a source of livelihood to a herd of dairy cattle and their owner. The chief trouble is the poundkeeper, whose business it is to prevent the roads being used as pasture, but what a watchful owner may achieve in spite of this was illustrated at the Magistrate's Court, at Feilding, recntly, when one, Bill Masters, of Awahuri, pleaded guilty to allowing If) cows to wander at large on the roads. The ranger stated that Bill had managed to keep 17 cows two horses and a bull on seven acres for years by the simple process of leaving the gates open at night. The ranger further said that Bill evidently reckoned paying poundage fees was cheaper than paying for grazing, and asked the Court to fall on Bill with a line that would paralyze his operations. The court fined Bill 10s and costs with a promise of more next time."