The effects of different rates of lime compared with surrounding area untreated, by lime. Seed heads are mostly browntop with some ryegrass and a fair amount of white clover throughout. The field was crushed’ out of scrub up to 15ft. high with tracklaying tractor and giant discs in 1951. It was fired and disced up and then worked down for a crop of swedes with 3cwt. of phosphates. It was redisced in autumn 1952 and sown down to grass with 3cwt. of phosphate. A further dressing of 3cwt. of phosphate was applied in August, followed by a further topdressing of 3cwt. in October instead of the normal autumn application in 1953. No lime had been applied throughout operations.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 87, Issue 3, 15 September 1953, Page 245

The effects of different rates of lime compared with surrounding area untreated, by lime. Seed heads are mostly browntop with some ryegrass and a fair amount of white clover throughout. The field was crushed’ out of scrub up to 15ft. high with tracklaying tractor and giant discs in 1951. It was fired and disced up and then worked down for a crop of swedes with 3cwt. of phosphates. It was redisced in autumn 1952 and sown down to grass with 3cwt. of phosphate. A further dressing of 3cwt. of phosphate was applied in August, followed by a further topdressing of 3cwt. in October instead of the normal autumn application in 1953. No lime had been applied throughout operations.