FARMING NOTES FOR APRIL
(New Zealand Country Journal;) Harvest operations will now, bo well: over, and threshing in full swing. The stubbles should now be attended to, as much of the success' of future ; crops depends upon , thorough and timely autumn tillage. As 1 fast as the corn is ; removed, sheep should be turned into the stubbles to pick up ! all stray heads •: leftjby the mowers and reapers, as well as the weeds. Stubbles intended for further cropping should, as soon as the sheep have picked it clean, receive a stroke of the' scarifier,;and harrows; this will cover the , seeds which have shed on the ground, and caused them to germinate, to be' covered in by the plough at seed time. This is .an operas tion too little attended to by Colonial farmers. The excitement of harvest over, that vigilance, which has. for its object the destruction of weeds, and which should never slumber, is relaxed*; allowing the weeds to mature and shed' their seeds, and instead of their vege-j i tation being promoted' as above indicated, they remain dormant till ploughiug time, and possess the soil intended to produce another crop of grain.
Summer fallow on new lands will have been sufficiently; cared: for, .if j visited frequently during the-; summer month'by a : flock of sheep,.but ; will now require attention. , •. , .. . i We, would Btrenuously enforce onour readers the necessity of having the... land intended for green crops ploughed'.:, at an early period in April ,or May. The earlier it is done the better.;' for" the longer time that the upturned soil is acted upon by the influences of tho-. weather, it will tell so much the more; on the after fertility, of;the stjii j ' if the 'stubbles have been mediately aftetiarsest, : all the- -better, ■At the' same time/ of stubbles, to be effectual must be deep ■< -not the a.pology'for tLUage. which we' find: iruso manycases, not only with small farmers, but-also with' • I those who ought to -know-better, - - '■* -
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1339, 29 March 1883, Page 2
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329FARMING NOTES FOR APRIL Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1339, 29 March 1883, Page 2
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