THE GREEN FEED PLOT

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1934, Page 14

THE GREEN FEED PLOT

I Autum\i-sown silver beet will need cultivating to keep down weeds and encourage early, growth. Small chicks appreciate silver beet, and it has the advantage of not having, to be chaffed.Tied in bundles and hung from the rooi; by string, brooder chicks will be kept amused for hours peeking it. More young plants can be put out for summer and autumn cropping. Lncerne is best sown 'about Novombor in well-pre-pared ground, free from weed seeds. Purchase good seed and'have it treated for good germination. Lettuce can be planted out now, and there is. no better greens, for-.chicks though the crop is not a heavy one. . Chou Moullier is the heaviest of all croppers, and should be sown from October until Christmas, but this crop is useless in. districts where the :white butterfly is; common.

It is one of. the best'winter crops since tho leaves stand the frosts well:

Use plenty of burnt.lime' on the grecu feed plots, siuco this, produces strong growth and quality, as well as acting as a. proventative to-the spread of disease from the use.of poultry manure. Carrots for winter use-should not bo shown until very' late in the spring, and they require a light sandy soil ii a really good crop is required. Of all greens, lucerno is the easiest in the long run, since onco established it is a. heavy cropper', but some other crop is required for winter, use: Oats and barley ina]ie |good catch crops, whilst rape?" can. bo sown in the late spring.