RAPE SEED.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 75, 18 July 1876, Page 3

RAPE SEED.

» Tint " P.nvita- Watch "is informed that J Mv. M. ,f, Stuckey was the pioneer «wlttvfitim of capo in (shut (Mount ffanit>br> eti** - |i'i«t, iiml iti thus recites its progress:.— ; "Hiw livsti experiment was with three jmnws of neuii sown for ctttinary purposes. '' I'Jiis' was Md successful- that, a considerable ; |wi'cul of .sotnl wassaved and sown uri fall's mlum ou the Wyne. Afterwards Mr. Ntitdtoy burned about. K*> yards of his own ' wlwtinu in the Font-point Swamp, and . fmntliu produce of this saved Mlb. of ' «W(I. Hu nwxfc prepared three acres «i | limil ami sowed it," reaping 2i- ton* of seed. , wwtsmwon he sowed down :s*tt> acres, 2"> wi'us of which was properly cultivated. It , i'lUrrow as wi-U as could have Wen ex- , lifctutl. ami tin- '.'f* acre* gave promtso , !l,r .vicliliji«;af. least 2ii tons* of seed. Hut "»'«>» to bim flooding of the land, from 'mi inability of the "drains to- carry oft ■tw rainfall,, the crops- went oft" so- much w only hvo fcon» were reaped. Mr. . wu% S p t .ftkj, highly of the capofcilt- ' tins of tho swamp land for rope growing. «throws a wonderful amount of feed, aftd Jtw" gwttinjf used to. it, stock get very fond ". * ' )n ' •«*> occasion he turned » small ""«"•<* sbeop into a fifty-acre paddock,-: "iH'-hiilr of which was sown with rape. A"tey dul not touch the rape till the grass wall gone, hut then they ate it all tip !*«". On being removed to another sinvt- "»' pmldock they reversed operations. *'»'}' ati> all the rape before commencing ,« 'wMiral grasses. Mr. Sfcuekev l "»thc following hint to squatters having ii'iith. or ft-my j. B , ipe wiII gr(>w . 0 „ ■nw lain!, ami about 3H>„ per aore r scattered »wn»nt any pvepa- w >utd add immwwely to its jfraadnss capabilities. Nego--1I ? a , lvl ' B n ™ in Vwrew, we believe. 7 s wtm s a mill on tW drained land f- 1 «» mwuitaotiii-f of colza oil and cake ton P ap . e BewU Tho «otonial waramp- j ' , \,- ,nl '* considerable, and wontd | r ,hßh lyi*B.»rb all the n»ltc»ntd ttttnont "NH&rtad danwnd io England."