FARMERS CALENDAR. 



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North i a Tabh land. 

 Crops to SOW- 

 Whcat — sowings may be made tliis 



month. 

 • tats may be sown for hay or grain. 



Vegetables — sow broad beans, cabbage. 

 lettuce, radish, and onion. 

 Transplant cabbage, eschalot, herbs, 

 leek, lettuce, onion, and rhubarb. 



( 'i ntral Tabh Until, 

 Crops to sow — 



Wheat may still be sown, although 



somewhat late to give best results. 

 Oats, barley, and rye may be sown. 

 All land for summer crops should be 

 ploughed as soon as possible. 



Vegetables — sow r peas and broad beans for 



main crop. Sow cabbage in seed-beds. 



Transplant cabbage and herbs. Plant 



out tree onion, potato onion, garlic, 



eschalot, and rhubarb. 



Southern Tableland. 

 Crops to sow — 



Oats for hay, green fodder, or grain. 

 Get ground ploughed for sowing of 

 spring crops, especially potatoes. 



Vegetables — sow seed of broad beans, cab- 

 bage, lettuce, radish. 



Transplant cabbage, eschalot, herbs, 

 leek, and rhubarb. 



Get ground ready for spring crops. 



North-western Slopes. 

 Crops to sow — 

 Wheat, oats and barley. 



Vegetables — sow broad beans, beet, cab- 

 bage, carrot, cauliflower, leek, onion, 

 parsnip, radish, silver beet, and white 

 turnip. 

 Transplant rhubarb. 



Prepare land for spring sowings. The 

 feeding off of cereals for hay should 

 cease early in this month. 



Central-western Slopes. 

 Crops to sow- 

 Wheat — late plantings of early maturing 

 wheats may be made on well-pre- 

 pared land up to the end of the month 

 with a prospect of getting profitable, 

 though not maximum, returns. 



Vegetables bow cabbage, broad beans, 

 radish, beet, spinach, silver beet, 

 lettuce, indue, leek. carrot, parsnip, 

 turnip, and peas. 

 Transplant cabbage, cauliflower, onion, 

 rhubarb, asparagus, silver beet, and 

 leek. 



Get land ready for planting out shade and 

 shelter trees w here necessary. 



South-western Slopes and Riverina. 



Crops to sow — 



Wheat — it is now late for wheat, and 

 sowing of ordinary varieties cannot be 

 safely extended beyond first week of 

 this month except in favourable 

 localities. Where delay has occurred 

 early varieties only should be sown. 



Vegetables — sow carrot, parsnip, lettuce, 

 broad beans, white turnip, peas, and 

 onion in limited quantities only 

 where water will be available. 



Get land ready for sweet potatoes, lucerne, 

 sheep's burnet, and for final sowing of 

 barley for fodder. 



Fallowing should commence this month. 



Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas. 



Crops to sow — 



Wheat — season is getting too late, but 

 quickly maturing varieties may be 

 sown if conditions are favourable. 



Oats — may yet be sown for green feed 

 or hay. 



Barley — for malting. 



Vegetables — sow beetroot, carrot, peas, 

 lettuce, cabbage, radish, silver beet, 

 spinach, turnip, tomato (under shelter). 

 Plant out asparagus and rhubarb. 

 Transplant cabbage, lettuce, leek, onion, 

 silver beet. 



Plough land for spring sown crops. 



North-western Plains. 



Crops to sow — 



All sowings should be completed, but 

 late sowings of early varieties should 

 be made. 



Vegetables — plant cabbage and sow carrot, 

 broad beans, lettuce, radish, peas, 

 and spinach. 



Other work— continue to plough land that 

 is to be sown in the spring; the frost 

 will kill most of the couch grass that 

 is ploughed up now. 



