ENSILAGE FOR SHEEP
Use in Western Australia The use of ensilage in fat lamb farming was touched upon at the Napier Eotary Club's luneheon hy Mr J. R. Marks, of Auckland, who addressed members on irrigation anc| its applieation to sheep farming. In Western Australia, he said, farmers had found they could not produce fat lambs on account of the dryness of the climate, where the winter was like a New Zealand summer. The problem had been overcome by the use of ensilage. Green oats, chaffed green, werelblown in concrete silos with an eighty-ton capaeity. The contents of one of these silos woxxld see 10- j ewes through the worst part of the year. There they could produce only oue- ton of oats to the acre, which would mean four tons of green silage, whereas in most parts of New Zealand, 16 tons of silage could he made from an acre of oats.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 63, 7 December 1937, Page 5
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