The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 79
Notes on Waerenga & Ruakura State Farms
Contents
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- Introductory
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Waerenga State Farm of Demonstration p. 4
- [introduction] p. 4
- Unpromising Soil
- Might Possibly Grow Wattles
- Effects of Tillage
- Vine Growing Successful p. 5
- The "Practical" Man on "Fancy Farming."
- Experimental Work Not Directly Profitable
- Experimental Distinct from Demonstration Work
- How to Show that Good Farming Pays p. 6
- Educational Results from Demonstration Farms and Agricultural Colleges
- A Commercial Value Given to Previously Unsaleable Lands
- Fruit Growing Proved Highly Successful p. 7
- Preparing Fruit Farms for Small Settlers
- Cost of Scheme Recouped to the State
- General Cultural Value of Waerenga Demonstrated p. 8
- Enormous Cost for Manure a Delusion
- Waerenga Wine
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Ruakura State Farm of Demonstration p. 9
- [introduction] p. 9
- Some Convincing Figures p. 10
- Intensive Agriculture and Demonstration Farms
- Women and Bee-Keeping
- A State Farm that is not a Financial Failure
- Ruakura as a Business Proposition p. 11
- Worth £60,000 To-Day
- Drainage a Permanent Improvement
- How Experimental Work is Profitable p. 12
- The Dairying Department
- A Model Milking Shed
- The Plant-Testing Work
- A Good Disease-Resistant Wheat p. 13
- Mangels
- Experiments with Lucerne
- Twelve Inches Growth in Twelve Days
- How Manured
- A Broadcast Crop
- Forty Tons of Green Forage Per Acre p. 14
- More About Plant Testing
- Breeding New Varieties of Grass and Cereals
- Variety of Prairie Grass for Pasture
- The Ruakura Rust-Proof Oat
- A Good Cropper p. 15
- The Farm Cadets
- Sound Elementary Teaching
- A Valuable Business Training
- The Manager of Ruakura p. 16