FORAGE-CROPPING ON THE HAURAKI PLAINS.
The crop of rye-corn and tares shown in the accompanying photograph was grown during the past season on Mr. Buchanan’s farm at Pipiroa. The paddock of about 12 acres was sown in June, and the crop made marvellous growth during the winter months,
attaining a height of fully 6 ft. In November the crop was cut and made into stack ensilage (on Mr. Dibble’s advice), being estimated to have produced from 80 to 100 tons of that fodder. Five years ago this part of the Hauraki Plains was - considered useless, and grew little except saltweed. Systematic drainingopen and molehas transformed the home of the - wild duck into rich pastures, which even now are hardly to be beaten in the Province of Auckland, and in a few years will be second to none in the Dominion. — C. E. McPhee, Fields Inspector, Thames.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XII, Issue 3, 20 March 1916, Page 204
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