FARMERS I ALENDARi 



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■nil Tableland. 



Crops to sow- 

 Potatoes — main late crop. 

 Blaise and Borghnm — for green fodder. 

 Pumpkins and melons may still be sown 



at the beginning of month. 

 Swedes — a small sowing towards end of 



month. 

 If practicable, land from which hay was 



gathered could be ploughed. This 



may be fitted in during damp weather. 



Vegetables — sow French and butter beans, 

 cabbage, .swedes, Brussels sprouts, 

 celery, squashes, cucumbers, beet, peas, 

 radish, lettuce, and sweet corn. 

 Transplant cauliflowers, cabbages, and 

 tomatoes. 



land ia weedy or sel by rains it should 

 be worked with disc or spring-tooth 

 cultivators or harrows. If only an inch 

 of soil is loose on the surface the 

 evaporation of moisture is greatly re- 

 tarded. The cereal harvest is generally 

 completed before the end of this month, 

 and hay stacked in field or shed. 



' '< I ral-weAem Slopes. 



Crops' to sow — 



Maize (early varieties) and sorghum — for 



greenstuff, sila ge, and grain. 



Cowpeas — for grazing and greenstuff.' 



Vegetables — plant French beans, marrows, 

 squashes, pumpkins. 



Southern Tableland. 

 Crops to sow — . 



Maize — for green fodder. 

 Japanese millet, Red clover, and Pas- 

 pedum dilataium. 



Vegetables — sow French beans, beet, cab- 

 bage, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, 

 leek, lettuce, parsnip, peas, potato, 

 radish, and squash seed. 



Transplant cabbage and tomato plants. 



Keep the ground well worked. 



Tie tomato plants to stakes, keeping the 

 laterals pinched out — it promotes early 

 setting of the fruit. 



Other work — cultivate potato crops to 

 keep the moisture in the ground. 

 Have you tried green peas. A planting 

 of peas as a side line would come in 

 perhaps about Easter. Richard Sed- 

 don, Green Feast or Yorkshire Hero 

 are suitable varieties. 



North-wextern Slope*. 

 Crops to sow — 



Maize, sorghums, millets, cowpeas. 



South-western Slope* and Biverina. 



Crops to sow — 

 Maize, sorghum, millet — sow for ensilage 

 and green fodder only where irrigation 

 is possible. 



Vegetables — stake tomatoes,' and mulch 

 after watering. 



Get land ready, if at all in suitable condit icn 

 for early autumn sowing. 



Mumimbidgee Irrigation Area-. 

 Crops to sow — 



Maize — for green feed; only sow maize 

 that can be used as green fodder before 

 frosts and use early maturing varieties. 

 If sown for grain it must be early in 

 the month. After Christmas is general! y 

 too late. 

 Millet and sorghum. 



Vegetables — sow peas, French beans, white 

 turnips, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, 

 tomatoes, sweet corn, cucumber, radish. 



Vegetables — sow French beans, marrow, 

 New Zealand spinach, pumpkin, radish, 

 squashes, tomato. 



Cultivation — continue as opportunity arises 

 to cultivate between rows of maize 

 and potatoes, and where these are 

 sufficiently developed hill if advisable. 

 Prepare further land for cropping in 

 .Tanuarv and earlv autumn. If fallowed 



North-western Plains. 



Crops to sow — 



Maize and pumpkins — only if they can 

 be irrigated. 



Other work — commence to plough land for 

 autumn sowing, plough in all the 

 stubble, especially on the black soil. 



