WINTER AND SPRING FEED.
Mr. W. Perry, of Mastorton, who-lias gone in largely for farm experiments, is this year sowing ' Algerian oats for winter feed, and Italian rya grass for the early spring. Mr. Perry states that lie has tried Capo barley and corn rye, but thinks that for :his class of toil Algerian oats are the. best. He has also under crop 100 acres of rape and 100 acrcs of swedes and white turnips. The swedes and turnips were sown from the middle of November to Christmas, and they are doing fairly well. The rape was not a big orop, but the second growth had coino on. splendidly with the late rain.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 156, 26 March 1908, Page 2
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113WINTER AND SPRING FEED. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 156, 26 March 1908, Page 2
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