118 Fern Land. 



skilful selection of the best artificial manures and 

 grasses. 



The King Country method of breaking in fern 

 country is well worth recording. It is claimed to be 

 better than ploughing, for it does not stir up the soil, 

 which being light as a rule, and having so much fern 

 root, is difficult to compact again. Burn the fern first, 

 then give, for preference, two cuts with the disc harrows ; 

 then run over with a chain harrow. Grass seed is then 

 sown with manure. The burning is invariably done late 

 in the summer, and the sowing in February. If sowing 

 cannot be done by first week in March stock are kept 

 on to eat down the young fern shoots, and the grass seed 

 sown in September. 



