GORSE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XII, Issue 3570, 24 November 1879, Page 2

GORSE.

(N.Z. Herald.)

" There never was a time when the external growth, and use .'of gorse called more loudly for practical investigation than the present. There are several millions of acres of uncultivated land not worth Js per acre to either landowner^ or tenant that would yield a crop of gorse worth £4 or £5 per acre.' Again, there is an immense area of poor land uader cultivation that is not paytog its way,

which would yield profitable crops of gorse. The question is, par excellence, a dairyman's one, for an abundant supply of gorse would enable him to produce better butter and cheese than his American rivals can do. Irish farmers are beginning to profit by this, the best winter butter and milk in Cork being from milch cows fed on gorse. Facts speak for themeelves, and once let the value of the produce of milch cows fed on gorse be known in pounds, shillings, and pence, and the extension of its growth will follow." That gorse — generally regarded as a great nuisance by the settlers of this country — can be thus utilised, and that machines are now made that will prepare it for the consumption of Btock, may prove intelligence ot a gratifying character to many, who hare already a considerable amount of this valuable plant on their homesteads. That it is valuable the following analysis wiilebow, being next to clover bay in flegh. and fat.forming mateiial :—: —

Foods. eshforiai; matter. t-formi matter Fnrze ... Cabbage . . Kohl Rabbi Mangel ... Swedes ... Carrots ... Turnips ... Clorer hay 3.21 1.63 2.75 1.54 1.94 0.60 1.80 4.27 9.38 5.06 8.62 8.60 5.93 10.18 4.43 9.14