MAIZE EFEATS THE DROUGHT

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1050, 13 February 1911, Page 8

MAIZE EFEATS THE DROUGHT

AT'WERERQA. , fci^'-v Mft!-' : . /; $;f~"T'v '■"■ ''">■s'', i^.'•Valuable experiments conducted on tto f,'.-. State Ffttm at JVercroa lead' to tho belief <■.• that 'droughts as they!affect stock can !;. bq : conqjiered/'arid'tlie certainty tljaf 1,. their evjls'csn bb mitigated by the sup-■'.pljing-.bf. niaizei: Ono enthusinstio agrir'cultdrist: holds rtbat , on 'his station the I: dry ■'•' weather 'period which becomes Vα t' draught f to - ' many,, farmers is, overcome tj by; the liberal provision of tbo crop nieri-|-jtioned.''<On manyiarras and in many dis;;tricts' tho cry of Mho' shortening of tho :; milk quantity is heard. ■ ■*■'•'.•■ ■ '• VThepiamplc. of tho farm has begun to .induce'.dairymen; to protect themselves •;• from the-whims of - the seasons by provide fitg plenty of n*al«>. • Tho value of maize r-'.fpr this nurposo has been proved at AVcr'e- : ,tob, ami as the .knowledge is spreading f.thero should ebon -bo" nrhctical evidence of ■Jtho; worth' of it in\ other • districts. In r theory,'"the jdea bught to hold good in all '.;our^ dairying districts,,but it is casior to Kγ b'ring dairymen into-lino by practical exit ample, Mich as that at Wereroa, than' bite: trying to'convince'.them' by Iccturcsand t 'luljliahed articles., jlf tho< nrovision'.of b -Baize,, will go as far in tho'combating of i:,a, drought -in other, parts as it has been ■\ found to p, at Woreroa, tho benefit to-the industry-will bo'very great ln-;;-de«d,,•:.'•',•"■,■ .•• •..",-.■■. ; ; v,; •- ■' ■•, tv'.At tho.'State farm mentioned, an' in-1 f'rteresting'demonstration has been mado of,l !, fr.owing:, rape and maizo together: for I -■■.'•eairly: feeding. The spring was eminently '■favourable, and;tho absence of frost al- , lowed themaize to grow unchecked. Sheep ..•were depastured 'on tho mixture in November. -At the first feeding the maizo' ;■■■ was oaten in preference .to tho rape. ! After 'the crop was- nllowcd to grow I again, the sheen prcforrcd.tho rants toctlie j, maize. Tho inference was that "tho rape ! ,bcc-me more fibrous, than in tho first ! -growth. ■ Further tc3ts : of this mixturo ; ; are.to.bo made.•>.;. . ■ , . f -In retcronco to maize-growing,' it "is ';worth, alluding to a common mistake of J; farmers. ;So*no landholders put down n f> crop of maize prior, to sowing some crop p they want particularly. .That is a caso \'. of adopting the WTonK order in rotation. } -Jloize takes a great deal out of tho coil, i and'fhpuldnot bo allowed to precede ; a ';crop that, is , particularly needed.