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estimated yield of about 7 tons to the acre. The cutting of the crop was 

 done with both the ordinary binder and a patent maize harvester. A 

 photograph of the latter in operation is reproduced in this article. This 

 machine is specially adapted for cutting drilled crops, being equal to any 



IRRIGATION PU.Ml'l.Xu ILANT AND FARM FERRY. 



thickness or length of stalk. The several illustrations of the maize crop 

 show it to be more even than the figures mentioned would suggest ; but 

 the variation in height applies more to the length of the individual 

 stalks over the whole area than to the total growth on any given section. 

 From some cause, on about 5 acres of the lowest-lying portion of the 

 paddock the bulk of the maize failed to grow ; but the .scattered stalks 

 that came some 3 or 4 feet apart, made the strongest growth on the field. 

 The draining of this paddock was done as it is intended to do the whole 



MAIZE CROP SHOVi'ING TEMPORARY IRRIGATION CHANNEL. 



of the farm flats, viz., by 4-inch earthen piping every 5 chains running 

 to a 9-inch pipe along the sides, which in turn runs to an open drain 

 lower down ; and the cost of the work is given as at about ;^5 per acre. 



