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NOTES ON NEW ZEALAND.
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allowed to come to ear. The grain is chiefly used for feeding pigs.
Good malting barley generally commands a profitable price. The yield on fair lands is some thirty bushels an acre. The crop is generally taken after peas, and sown in August and September.
Mangolds and turnips are the principal root crops. The former are grown for feeding cattle; they are cultivated in much the same manner as turnips, but are not of such importance in New Zealand as the latter.
Turnips afford the chief food for sheep during the winter in the South Island.
