This Month’s Cover

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 87, Issue 3, 15 September 1953, Page 193

This Month’s Cover

The availability in recent years of special mechanical equipment has reduced the labour required to produce market garden crops. This ~ month s cover, which is reproduced from a colour photograph, shows winter vegetables being collected in a tractor trailer on a market garden at Te Ore Ore near Masterton in the Wairarapa. Because of the demand for. land for housing and industry there has been a tendency in the last 20 years for Vegetable production areas to be established much further from urban areas than formerly. Though at present vegetable growing is not extensive in the Wairarapa, it is expected that the opening of the tunnel, by providing quid?, access with the Hutt Valley and Wellington, will stimulate vegetable production in the southern part of the district.

New Zealand Department of Agriculture HEAD OFFICE: Dominion Farmers’ Institute Building, Featherston Street, Wellington. DIRECTOR-GENERAL: E. J. Fawcett ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL: R. B. Tennent ' DIVISIONAL DIRECTORS: Animal Industry . . J. E. Mcllwaine Animal Research .-. . . J. F. Filmer Dairy . . . . . . . . H. A. Foy Extension . . . . P. W. Smallfield Horticulture . . ... A. M. W. Greig Marketing . . . . K. B. Longmore Editor: G. J. Neale"