PUMPKINS FOR WINTER FEED.
Many are not aware of the ease with which a few tons of pumpkins may be raised for the feeding of milch cows during winter. It can be done without breaking up the land, but of course cattle must bo shut out. All that is necessary is to drop a couple of barrows of manure at intervals of 20 feet all over the land, and dig it in a spit deep for about two yards square, and then sow two or three seeds in each place. If these holes are kept clean, and there is anything like an average rainfall during the time they are growing they will yield almost as great a weight of pumpkins as. though the whole land were broken Up. Full cultivation during the wet season tends to produce a profusion of runners and leaves, and.too frequently very few pumpkins. But when the roots are restricted in growing Bpace this excess of growth, oamiot take place and the plants are consequently more fruitful. What is here, written is abundantly illustrated in the experience of practical men, and it will be worth while for those who.have a few cows and land to work with to put it it to the test for themselves.—Queenslander. .
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1941, 17 March 1885, Page 2
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210PUMPKINS FOR WINTER FEED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1941, 17 March 1885, Page 2
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