“OFF THE TURNIPS”
600 ACRES ON KARIOI PLAINS WONDERFUL WINTER FEED FOR HOGGETS On a clear day climbers on Mount Ruapehu sec below them a green square on the Karioi plains. From the slopes of the mountain the verdant patch looks like a miniature pocket handkerchief. Actually it is the biggest turnip field in New Zealand, and a splendid example of the cropping capacity of the Karioi flats. Six hundred acres in extent, this turnip field is the size of an ordinary farm. Two motor tractors did the ploughing and cultivating, and the “strike” of the seed was extraordinarily good, the crop being so satisfactory that it is expected to winter 1500 hoggets. The field is on the property of Messrs Duncan and Campion, Karioi station and was very heavily manured. To say that a man came “off the turnips” would obviously, in this case, give him a fairly comprehensive origin.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19504, 3 February 1926, Page 6
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