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oi this green maize per cow have been fed daily during the past six 

 weeks to the milking herd of 15 cows, and after filling his 50-ton silo 

 Mr. Boyd estimates he will have from five to six weeks' green fodder 

 still to use before commencing on his silage. 



Mr. Downer has five acres of Yellow Dent and Hickory King 

 varieties that were sown in November in drills 3 feet apart. Two cwt. 

 of superphosphate and bone manure to the acre were put in with the 

 maize, which was sown at the rate of 20 lbs. to the acre ; the ground 

 was inter-cultivated at intervals of ten days, and the crop is now from 



6 to 10 feet high. 

 The stems of the.se 

 maize are particu- 

 larly thick and 

 heavy, weighing up 

 to 3^ lbs. each. 



The success of 

 this crop may be 

 claimed to be wholly 

 due to Mr. Downer's 

 systematic method 

 of cultivation, as 

 the land on which it 

 is growing is com- 

 paratively poor. In 

 the same locality, 

 maize crops sown 

 broadcast are almost 

 without exception so 

 poor as to be prac- 

 tically worthless. 

 Satisfactory results 

 have also been ob- 

 tained from drilled 

 maize grown on high 

 land on which in 

 previous years under 

 the old broadcast 

 system failures were 

 the rule. Mr. B. 

 Sadlier and Mr. N. 

 White each had two 

 acres of Hickory 

 King sown with 

 I cwt. superphos- 

 phate to the acre in 

 drills 30 inches apart 

 HICKORY KING AT " TRALEE. ' and Cultivated twice 



Heiglit, lOi ft. -4 months' growth. jj-, December. These 



reached a height varying from 6 to 8| feet, which is considered very 



satisfactory. 



Messrs. Fletcher, J. Scott, Hubbard, Ellis and others have also 



adopted this system of maize sowing, and recognise it to be the only sure 



means of obtaining a crop. 



