MAIZK. 



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with carbon bisulphide, using about 1 oz. or more .it' the liquid to 16 cubic feet 

 of Bpace, and placing it in a shallow lid or vessel on top of the pile of cars. 

 After fumigation for twenty-four hours, the cms should be taken out and 

 well aired to get rid of the fumes. Care must be taken to have uo naked 

 light near the fumigating bin, bul further reference is made to this .subject 

 where the control of the grain weevil is dealt with a feu pages further on. 



Husking and Shelling. 



If the grain is to he used for pig-feed, the husking may be left to the pigs, 

 or the pigs may he allowed to " hog down the ripe corn in the held. Tins 

 is done by temporarily fencing off small areas in the paddock and running 

 about 20 to 40 pigs to the acre, or at any rate as many as will clean up the 

 area in two or three weeks. In this way little, will be wasted. 



Pulling and husking, if done by contract, costs from 10s. to 15s. per acre, 

 according to the crop. A good man should be able to husk about 5 or 

 fj bushels per hour of ordinary sized corn. 



Shelling machines range in size from small hand-machines, with a capacity 

 of 2 bushels per .hour, up to power-machines with a capacity of 50 bushels 

 per hour. Shelling costs about Id. per bushel when done by contract. 



Combined buskers and shelters are now on the market, which turn out 

 from -10 to 200 bushels per hour. The saving has been calculated to be 

 about 8s. an acre on a crop of 50 bushels. 



Maize Husker and Shelter, in use at Grafton Experiment Farm. 



Cost of Production. 



The cost of preparing the land, planting, and cultivation on the coast has 

 been estimated at about £2 per acre, and the total cost of production for a 

 40-bushel crop, including rent, about £6 per acre. This means the cost 

 of producing a bushel would be about ,'is. The profit per acre on the 

 yield quoted here would have been about £3 per acre. The winner of 

 the Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Association acre-yield competition 

 in 1915 was estimated to have made a net profit of £11 per acre from his 

 77-bushel crop. 



At Glen Innes a profit of £6 per acre has been made on a 43-bushel crop. 



