FARM NOTES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 April 1907, Page 1

FARM NOTES.

The uncertainty 'of the potato crop snd the high price of maize last year is Hawkes Bay have led to the cultivation of an unusually large atea of maize. Crops of ten 'and eleven feet high are common, and.'the stalks, •\vhich are almost as sweet* as sugar-cane, are highly esteemed by the cattle, and form an ideal food for daiiy stock, - imparting as they do a pleasant flavour to the milk. On the low-lying" flats some of the plants are attacked /by a fungus which shows' itself , in !brown stains on the leaves ahd stems,' but which doss not seem seriously to effect the crop. Some of the growers identify .it with the dreaded, potato fungu_tbe sporc3 of which still linger in the soil. '

A high authority -says^: "In tho domain of agriculture' St used to be thought that a nlan co_ld succeed only where the soil "was" right,! the water supply right, md the ; climate right. Now it is recognised thajt dhe chief element of success is the man himself." This is a great truth that iS.not limited to the domain of agriculture.

The grape crop- .in J^ew South Wales this year is one -of the finest for many ycars.ahd considerable quantities of extra choice white muscatels are being shipped to Hamburg, Two years ago a. Mudgee district gjower found a highly paying parket- in British Colun^ia, arid it .is intended to send further shipments^this year.

The "Manawatu Daily Times" says.—One cf the best crops, of maize grown in the district is that of Mr M'Leary Stony Creek. The'cron .in many- places is lift high. Mr M'Lpaiy. has grown this particular; claSs of ! crop for ;_nmo time past, and -finds .that .it provides excellent wintpr fodder.- and enables his cows to keep 7u^. their, test fully three months linger than wpuld etherwise be the .case..- ■ ''-,■