WINTER FODDER
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS “In last year's address I laid particular stress upon the advisability of establishing pampas grass as a supplementary winter fodder, and expressed the opinion that it might ease the labour problem farmers were faced with,” said Mr Edkins. “During the past winter I have had the opportunity of testing this theory. On my own farm four acres were planted the previous year, and the results have been extremely satisfactory. *’A four-page article on pampas as a fodder, written by Mr P. S. Syme, Instructor of Agriculture, and published in the Agricultural Journal of August last, is worth reading. He states in conclusion that once pampas is successfully established, and under a system of proper management, the farmer is completely assured of a valuable reserve of nutritive and palatable winter feed 1 regardless of the vagaries of the sca-
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 29241, 11 October 1940, Page 7
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142WINTER FODDER Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 29241, 11 October 1940, Page 7
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