EXPERIMENTAL FARMING.
SATISFACTORY EESELTS. A Wairarapa fanner, who is not contend to remain in old-established rate, .but desires to benefit himgp.lf and others by intelligently carried out experiments, last season sowed a crop of dwarf maize recommended by e/n Agtricultnral Department official as a fodder for sheep. The crop 'has been a decided success, carlying 65 lantbs to the acre during a period of three weeks, there still being a good crop left. At another Wairaxapa sheep station, maize and thousand-head-ed kale have been grown together for foddler, and have given excelenfc results. Other progressive breeders are also growing rape and maize together for sheep fodder. One grazier expresses his firm conviction that kale and maize, and rape and maize, grown together, will -take the place of turnips -as feed i for sheep, it having been ascertained that the former crops resist the ravages pi diseases to -wlrifch the latter- are. grene. s - w . - -
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 136, 7 June 1912, Page 9
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154EXPERIMENTAL FARMING. Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 136, 7 June 1912, Page 9
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