MAIZE FOR DRY SEASONS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1056, 20 February 1911, Page 8

MAIZE FOR DRY SEASONS.

I ' SUCCESSFUL IN'TAIUNAK#.| t'..-.: ; n I■ -A'• few days ago Tub Dominion devoted " 1 an>artlclo to showing'how maizo ' had : , r- ■ feen so successful at Wereroa State Farm „ t • as a food for dairy cattle \m tlio > presaiit » ■ . drought' that it was believed there that ! 1 ' ■ tho'croT) conld he used successfully in all New'Zcaland districts., It-Iras stated in A (:-• th,o 'article that actual .'results from other E districts 'would -b«.,welcomed as evidencfi'' ' !•- . drawn-from practical expbritnee. : ' Almost I immediately news has cbnie from Hawera. • 1 ' Tbb ' Hawera-, "Star", prints. .the'-', follow- ci t ing:—"Tho value of maize-growing has f beeii 1 testified by-.farmers>in:this'.distriet rjl whbrby/meaas of'this cron liaVe'tieen a"blo r eg • to Tebort "that'despite 'tho dry'weather l v tho'last 'fewv.wcekS * thtir supplies of : milk 'are. fetter, than, at- tho. same: period -:-i -lost-year,rand also by tho'managers of t local factories, - who havo ■ informed S ns tliU the,record^"at;their'faotories aro *L , header than last year. "This most satis- m, - factory result must 1w attributed in'large r. measjire to tho" nvailahle.". . 5 ,V Tho, same -paperalso saysi- 1 "T}io m, ■ . fariiicr, likb, most men, by experi- . i ;; • encf/'alld he'is gradnalfy acquiring tKo i' ; .. , habit'of preparing hiiiself for the bad season which .'usually comes along every i- ■ few'years, and which' gives no warning , , of its , annroach. . Because .;of; the j -{ore- . i 1 fight of mftriy farmer's lit, sow'ihs-maize, ' ■ the; Talne of which mvsj . pot. generally p: 1 ; • known here until a couple i)f years- ago,- ' the injury from 'dronrrnt is being' conv •• sid9rably. reduced. Maize is now being 5, ! : sowii very estensively, and though , tho ! apportionment of tho daily allowance.to'. ?" y . each'coir'means n great ae.al of" labour, • - - this is.fullv comnensatsd for in the better 00 !. milk, supply as compared with that of S? j,-.-' , those farmers who aro cuitc.at the'mercy J! I • of tho - season. : Haizo grows remarkably, 1' 1 well in. this part of • tho country, and, - • -as ana farmer remarked, the 'dryer tho , the grceucr it nets,. As tinie goes Yl r • on.v if all that resort" say? ; about 'its «3 s. valno bo truej maize,will ba very generally' < prown in this part of New Zealand. Were J"? it.npt for the nua'ntity grown this season ; tho drought'would havo been felt much , mi J. : more keenly.'?. J? l' " J —— wi