“AMAIZING” RECORD
SOUTH AFRICAN FARMER’S SUCCESS. Nearly 200 bags of maize from a bag of seed is the record for maize established this season by Mr H. W. Wessels, of Harrismith, South Africa. Harrismith has never been considered, owing to its rather erratic climate, to be in the “grain belt,” yet Mr Wessels, who is essentially a sheep and cattle farmer, reaped no fewer than 543 bags of Hickory King maize from three bags of seed. He explains that, given . the right type of climate (which admittedly does not occur more than about once in three years) for maize, 150 bags per bag of seed should not be a difficult average to attain, whereas the present average is about 70 to 80.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1941, Page 7
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122“AMAIZING” RECORD Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1941, Page 7
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