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Zealand. 



Zealand is a tall-growing, 

 free stooling, late variety, of 

 attractive appearance. The 

 young growth is fairly vigorous, 

 and its foliage colour dark ; the 

 Leaves are broad, limp and 

 abundant. When ripe the straw 

 is long, hollow, rather Btrong 

 and stout, and yellowish in 

 colour. The ears are beardless, 

 long and tapering, with the 

 spikelets rather open. The chaff 

 is smooth and white. The grain 

 is large, plump, soft, and dull 

 white. 



/raland is an old-established 

 variety, and is regarded as one 

 of the very best grown in this 

 State for hay, but for best 

 results it must be sown early. 

 The Manager of Wagga Experi- 

 ment Farm regards it as a valu 

 able hay wheat. 



Zealand, which is also known 

 in South Australia as " Ber- 

 thoud," appears to give a heavier 

 fodder than Warden, though the 

 quality of the chaff is not quite 

 equal to it. 



Zealand should be grown by 

 farmers who cater for the Sussex- 

 street trade and who make a 

 specialty of growing wheat for 

 hay, but where there is much 

 grain to be harvested this 

 variety is altogether too late. 

 There is not sufficient time to 

 deal with it before stripping is 

 begun. 



Under favourable conditions 

 Zealand produces a satisfactory 

 amount of grain, but for grain 

 production it is being ousted by 

 earlier varieties. In the matter 

 of colour its flour is rather below 

 the standard required by millers, 

 though so far as flour-strength 

 is concerned it must be classed 

 with the " Medium Strong " 

 wheats 



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