BIGGER CROP OF MAIZE GROWN IN the DISTRICT
A bigger crop of maize than usual is being shelled on farms in the Whakatane area. Shelling has just begun and those crops which have been finished show bigger yields than normal.
The cross-bred types of maize grown here are slower drying than the types grown in Poverty Bay, where crops are half-shelled and where a record season is indicated.
It is thought that approaching 5,000 sacks of maize will be sent out of Whakatane. This yield is apart from that grown by farmers for their own pigs and poultry. One .Whakatane firm expects to handle 2,500 sacks. Eastern Bay does not grow maize extensively for shipment to other districts as the cost of hand plucking is considered too high and as the plucking machines used at Gisborne have not proved satisfactory with the types of maize grown here. Shelling is expected to finish next month.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 94, 11 September 1950, Page 5
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154BIGGER CROP OF MAIZE GROWN IN the DISTRICT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 94, 11 September 1950, Page 5
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