BLACK BARLEY
HEAVP CROP AT POUKAWA. A heavy crop of black barley is in stook ■on Mr. Allan Smith’s fam at I’oukawa. Unfortunately, during reaping operations, caterpillars in one night considerably reduced the yield., After growing capo barley and Algerian oats for winter feed over a long period of years, Mr. Smith is convinced that black barley is much the better proposition. Last autumn, in twenty-six days from date of sowing, his crop of black barley was ready for stock, and threw' a great bulk of feed throughout tho winter, fattening a large number of lambs and sheep. Mr. Smith believes in a heavy seeding of over three bushels to the acre, but on some of the heavy land of the Heretaunga Plains, this could safely be increased to lour bushels.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 307, 11 December 1931, Page 15
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131BLACK BARLEY Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 307, 11 December 1931, Page 15
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