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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15932, 1 June 1915, Page 4

Who was it said: "He is a pub ic benefactor who grow.; two blades uf gruM where one grew before?" That may bo true enough as applied to grass, but "it is a principle that won't work when applied to cows. Strang as it may seem, there are thousands of farmers who had ra.lier keep two poor cows than jno good 'ire. Thiiifc of a farmer making this ieplv when urged to cull out his poor cow ': "Why, what will I have to few! my fodder to?" And he actually meant, .t, too. Rape is a recognised valuable rotation crop, leaving the ground i'i better condition for the crop to follow than was previously the case. Though not a legume, it leaves sufficient nitrogen (541b per acre I available for a 35-bushel crop of wheat en nigh phosphoric acid (261b) for the same amount, a fair supply of potash, md k largo amount of humus in tho shine of decaying root matter. When sciv'n in tho autumn with rye the two crop? combined have a particularly good effect a* a rotation, and where sown on sandy foils, which must be well a aiiurcd for the (impose of forcing as much growth as possible, they have a greatly beneficial effect if ploughed under in vho spring, when the crop is about lOin high. Managed in this way they can be fed off all the winter and a handsome profit made from the stock; a green fallow instead of a bare fallow has been given the land, and tho crop that follows is in most cases batter than where bare fallowing is practised.