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bhough the upper Leaven and stem are still green. Softer curing, the ears are 

 husked from the shocks and the stover fed t<> stock or stored for future use. 

 It may be stored either (a) by cutting up into silage at once with other green 

 material, and well sprinkled with water if required, or (/>) by drying the 

 fodder and stacking it. 



This method of harvesting is mostly applicable to cold districts — more 

 especially those which as a rule do not have particularly wet winters. The 

 Tableland districts could profitably adopt this practice. 



At <den Innes Experiment Farma busking and shredding machine deals 

 with the whole of the stalk, busking and shelling the cobs, shredding the 

 stalks, and elevating the shredded fodder into a stack. Such a stack is an 

 extremely valuable and palatable form of roughage for the winter, especially 

 for dry cattle, which should have ad libitum access to it from a bush 

 paddock. 



Shredded Maize Stover Stack at Glen Innes Experiment Fcrm. 



When the grain is allowed to thoroughly mature on the stalks, the latter 

 are of very little value for feeding purposes. 



(4) For Grain only, — The ears are snapped off by hand with the husks 

 attached when they are properly dry, and carted to the barn, where they are 

 stored for husking. In some districts the ears are husked from the standing 

 stalks and bagged in the field. A crop is usually fit to pull when about 

 80 per cent, of the stalks are quite yellow. 



Yields. 



A yield of 45 tons per acre of green fodder has been obtained on the South 

 Coast, and 100 bushel crops of grain are still obtained on the coast in good 

 seasons. The yields vary greatly with the district. On the coast 60 bushels 

 of grain or 20 tons of green fodder are reckoned to be good crops. On the 

 Northern Tablelands, a 30-bushel crop is profitable, although 45 bushels per 

 acre and over have been obtained. On the Central Tableland and Central- 

 western Slopes 30-bushel crops are obtained on upland soil in a good season, 

 but often not more than 10 or 15 bushels per acre. Under irrigation in these 



