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THE FARMERS' HANDBOOK. 



Vegetables — sou in seed-beds onions for 

 main crop. Sow cabbage, Brussels 

 sprouts, broccoli, leeks, beet, lettuce, 

 radish, turnip, silver beet, and celery. 

 Transplant cabbage, broccoli, leeks, 

 celery, and eschalots. Make a small 

 sowing of carrots. 



Southern Tableland. 



Crops to sow — 



Rye and field peas — for green fodder. 

 Barley and field peas or wheat (Firbank 

 or Thew) and field peas may be sown 

 on small areas if the season is favour- 

 able where early green winter fodder 

 for dairy stock is required. 

 Lucerne — this is a good month to sow 

 lucerne seed providing the weed 

 seed has been worked out of the 

 ground, and there is sufficient soil 

 moisture. Get the crop up and 

 doing before the ground becomes 

 cold. 



Vegetables — sow seed of broad beans, beet, 

 cabbage, carrot, celery, leek, lettuce, 

 onion, parsnip, radish, silver beet, 

 spinach, white and Swede turnip. 



Transplant cabbage, cauliflower, celery, 

 eschalot, leek and silver beet plants. 



Hot weather conditions have to be 

 met. Keep ground Avell worked and 

 weed growth down. See that plants 

 do not lack soil moisture. 



North-western Slopes. 

 Crops to sow — 



Millets and Sudan grass — for feeding off. 



Rape, barley, wheat and oats — in the 



latter part of the month for grazing. 



Vegetables — sow French beans (early in 

 month ), and cabbage, cauliflower, peas, 

 Swede and white turnip later in the 

 month. 



Get land ready for wheat, oats, barley, and 

 rape. 



Central-western Slopes. 

 Crops to sow — 



Rape — for early grazing and greenstuff. 



Mustard — do 



Barley — do 



Rye — do 



Tares (or vetches) do 



Early sown crops of rape are likely to be 

 attacked by aphis; to keep the pest 

 in check the crop should be kept fed 

 off until cool weather sets in. Barley 

 or mustard, sown with rape, tends to 

 reduce the danger of " bloating " 

 when stock are first put upon the 

 crop. 



Vegetables— sow French beans, beet, tur- 

 nip, radish, lettuce, silver beet, swedes, 

 cabbage, cauliflower. 



Get land ready for autumn crops by 

 breaking up stubble or new land, and 

 by working the fallows to cheek 

 weeds and evaporation. 



South-western Slopes and Mirerina. 



Vegetables — sow cabbages and cauliflower 

 in seed-beds for transplanting later on. 

 If soil is sufficiently moist, sow white 

 turnips and swedes. Growing crops 

 will need especial attention, and if 

 weather is dry, an occasional watering 

 In applying the water, stir up the soil 

 beforehand, and then cover the moist 

 ground with a mulch of old straw, 

 leaves, or anything that will help to 

 conserve the moisture. 



Other work — It is rather early for sowing 

 any of the main crops yet. All the 

 time possible should be devoted to 

 - .^. preparing land for — 



Rape — for green feed, which may be 

 sown in fallowed land or after showers. 



Oats — for green feed. 



Wheat — for green feed. 



Swedes and turnips — sow if weather be 

 favourable. 



Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas. 

 Crops to sow — 



This is a bad time to sow crops, though 

 towards the end of the month Cape 

 or Skinless barley may be sown for 

 green feed. 



Vegetables — sow cabbage, cauliflower, car- 

 rots, beetroot, parsnips, turnips (white 

 and Swede), lettuce, potatoes. 



Get land ready for all classes of autumn, 

 sown crops. 



North-western Plains. 



Vegetables — cabbage and cauliflower seed 

 may be sown to provide young plants 

 for setting out towards the end of 

 March. 



Other work — should the weather permit, 

 ploughing may still be done for crops 

 that are to be put in late in May or 

 in June, but this is usually a very wet 

 month, and work on the land is 

 impossible. 



