SEASONAL NEEDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 April 1938, Page 3

SEASONAL NEEDS

USE OF CARBOHYDRATES Land sown to green crops in autumn should be deeply worked but not broken down too fine, nor rolled. The air must be able to get through the soil freely to keep the bacterial life active, and there must be reasonable drainage away from the surface to a depth below the plant roots if winter growth is to continue.

It is at this time of the year when Nature provides a preponderance of carbohydrates—the fat-forming foods—x over protiens—the energy foods —to build up reserves of condition in an-, mals to carry them through the winter, build up reserves of condition in aniThes carbohydrates are found largely in grass seeds, grains and so on, but under our methods of close grazing, few grass plants have a chance to seed, and so supply this type of food.