MAIZE FAILURES
MORE CARE WANTED OFFICIAL STAMP USE "There have been a lot of failures in this season's maize crops and a lot of heart-burning over the matter," said Mr H. B. Bull at a meeting of the Gisborne-East Coast provincial executive of the Federated Farmers. ,»■ The executive was unanimous in its decision to ask the Department of Agriculture to exercise more care in future before placing the departmental stamp on seed maize. The motion was proposed by Mr Bull and seconded by Mr Stuart McGuinness.
Mr McGuinness agreed that there had been numerous complaints. The seed had not been topped and tailed, and some of the trouble was probably season. Mr D. W. W. Williams: A big percentage of the seed would never grow; it was damaged. Mr J. F. Watt: It does not matter if the cob is not topped and tailed, the seed is quite good as long as the cob is true to type and the germ of life is in the seed. Mr C. H. Williams: The germ of life is not in a lot of the One seed in four or five in some of my rows has not germinated at all; they have just gone rotten in the ground.—Gisborne Herald.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 91, 7 February 1947, Page 5
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207MAIZE FAILURES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 91, 7 February 1947, Page 5
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