FREAKS OF NATURE.
We have been requested to insert the following from an old issue of the Mark Lane Empress, it having been contributed to that paper by Mr John Hudson, of Castleacre: — Last year I grew a few acres of what is called " oat barley" viz., barley produced by a gentleman in Huntingdonshire from oats being sown and not allowed to produce seed the first year, but stood till the barley with a very stiff straw. I liked it so much that I have sown 30 acres of it this year. And now I am [ about to tell you of another freak of nature. Last year my brother-in-law, Mr Thomas Sewell Moore, of Warham near Holkham, Norfolk, ploughed up a piece of land that had been a plantation for a great many years, and drilled it with oats. It produced a fine crop of oats. Two or three bushels per acre were shed down when ripe and ploughed in immediately after last harvest, and the land drilled with tares. The whole came up well, and there is a large crop on the "•round; but, instead of being oats and tares as expected, it is now rye and tares in full ear, and not an oat to be seen.—Oamaru Mail.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2232, 25 July 1891, Page 1
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210FREAKS OF NATURE. Temuka Leader, Issue 2232, 25 July 1891, Page 1
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