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Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1921, Page 3

J By feeding his cows on rape, Mr. G. ] Stokee, of Pyke’s road, Manawatu • County, has maintained a good supply I of milk during the recent dry months (says the Standard). He had sown a field, in rape in October last, and had. kept the cowe off it as long as possible. Not until the grass began to give out and the flow started to decrease did h» put the cows on the rape. That was in February, so that the rape crop had four months’ growth. Mr. Stokes found that i the yield was helped immediately, and all through the dry weather there had been hardly any decrease. In order ta prevent any tainting of the milk, Stokes, as soon as he milkpd Itis cows in the morning, turned them on to the rape, and left them there for 20 minutes or half-an-hour, and then put thtem on the grass for the rest of the day. Thfa short spell on the rape was quitettong enough, and it left no taint whatewr in . ihe milk. f '