THE MAIZE CROP.
A DISAPPOINTING SEASON. Tho most unsatisfactory crop all over tho district this season, says our travelling correspondent, is maize. In the course of his travels. th 6 correspondent adds, he has seen very few crops indeed worthy of the name. Tho cold, wet, nnd sunless spring must be' accepted as tho reason. The best crop seen was ono grown by a Rangifiikei farmer. After the potatoes were out last year tho paddock was sown with grey peas in the spring. When about four feet high and in full flower these were ploughed under, and on this ground tho maize was sown. Of course tho usual artificial manures were used also. The result is a very fino growth of stalk. The maize has cobbed well, and in an ordinary season would be an eighty-bushel crop, but it will not yield that now.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1456, 3 June 1912, Page 8
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144THE MAIZE CROP. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1456, 3 June 1912, Page 8
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