MAIZE VARIETY YIELDS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 201, 30 June 1939, Page 4

MAIZE VARIETY YIELDS

WAIPAOA EXPERIMENT INTERESTING RESULTS' .i. .V"‘ ■ • ~ ! Many Opotiki farmers were interested experiments which .were carried put in Poverty Day in conpectiyd..ii maize production A:-.-- ,, , Ai*' .tore sting. lnjiize yield tif v t ’ been harvested on. Mr. A.jG. mill's property, Waipaoa. Weighings to provide the relative yields of green cobs have been made, and much valuable data .is expected when the matured grain is also weighed. Twelve varieties were planted by Mr. El. M. Bates, B.Sc., in co-opera-tion with Mr. McPhail, during November and the the cobs were harvested .at the beginning of June. The maize was plantedl in duplicated plots, each consisting of two rows lch. -52 ft. long, the width in the rows being 3ft. The following are relative figures in pounds of green cobs before cribbing, the figures given being the averages of the two plots:— lb. Boone County White .. 149 lowa Silveiynine 143 Learning 11l Ulmara White Cap 140 Fitzroy . 137 Marigold 130 Funk’s Yellow Dent ... 136 Gisbofne Horsetooth ... 133 Wellingrove 122 Early Maffufor ........ 110 Silver Queen 109 Golden. Glow 103 Mr .Bates points out that it must be realised that the above figures will be entirely different when the grain is weighed after shelling, for some varieties will have a greater core and moisture loss than others. The varieties will be cribbed in 12 different lots, and will be shelled some time early in the spring. / Alongside the experimental plot was a paddock which was sown earlier, the latter containing heavier cobs and more of them than the experimental maize.

Tlie results of the weighing alter the shelling will be looked forward to witli considerable interest by all maizegrowers.