FARM EXPERIMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1389, 15 March 1912, Page 8

FARM EXPERIMENTS.

SOME WAIRARAPA ARRANGEMENTS. The Agricultural Committee of the Mastcrton A. and P. Association has arranged with Mr. Bayliss, of the Agricultural Department, for a further series of experimental sowings in various parts of the Wairarapa. The following trials are, says tho "Age," to be. carried out:—Half acre Italian rye (to be sown in autumn), Mr. Shaw, Upper Plain (feeding purposes) j ■ Mr. Dagg (Upper Plain), hay; Mr. W. Perry (seed). Hennchen barley (1 aero of Hcnnchen and 1 aero of another variety, to bo kept separate, and a record of stock feeding on it also to be kept).—Messrs. Percy Bros., To Oro Ore. Wheat (winter variety, to be sown in winter, 1 acre plot).—Mr. H. Evans, Upper Plain; spring sowing, Canadian .variety, Mr. W. C. Miller, Matahiwi. Luccrno (plots in which peas have been sown, spring sowing).—Mr. A. J. StoneWigg, Opaki;, Mr. S. Shaw, W«',ingawa; •Mr. T. Wrigley, Kopunranga; Mr. E. Harper, Matahiwi; Mr. W. J. Chappoll, Matahiwi. To be sown with a view to feeding dairying stock. Oats (autumn sown. White Ligowo and 'Algerians, to be sown separately, for the purpose of comparing which is most suitable for feeding purposes, and corn return).—Mr. E. Harper (6 acres of each); Messrs. Percy Bros, (I acres of each). Oats for seed (spring sown, in acre plots).—Whito Ligowo, Mr. J. Dagg, Upper Plain; four varieties autumn, Mr. E. O'Sullivaii, Upper Plain; to bo fed off and let go for crop. Autumn sown, '1\ acre white Ligowo and 1} acre Algerians; 1} acre Beardless Propsteir, for feeding purposes, and to bo let run to seed later, Mr. T. Wrigley, Kopuaranga. Mangels (two varieties, two <}-acre plots).—Mr. E. Harper, Matahiwi.' Maize (1 acre).—Mr. S. Shaw, Waingawa. Tho mangels, maize, and lucerne crops aro to be experimented on with a view to - feed for dairying stock. / Mr. Bayliss suggested that with a viewto co-operation thero should be certain days fixed on which those interested could go round and inspect the various experimental plots, so that farmers could bo enabled to draw their own deductions as to what varieties of seed and crop were most adaptablo to their own particu- ' ■ Jar class of laud.