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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18807, 1 December 1932, Page 2

Llmo for Bush Lands.— An interestinc feature of farming practice In the hnsti country of Gatlins lids year Is the marked popularity of lime. Deliveries have been unusually heavy, and there are very few holdings that have not received liberal dressings, many of them for the first lime. Experience has shown Hint on hush soils, and particularly on moss hanks, lime produces excellent results when applied in tile early spring prior to the sowing of either crops or pasliiP's, a fact which bad not been fully appreciated in Ihe past by Gatlins fanners as a whole. In tills district and in other pads “f Smith nt.igo ns well, there has been evident a realisation of the fad that liming is essential before the host results ran he obtained from the use of other manures.