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NOTES ON NEW ZEALAND.
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tory crop for both wheat and barley, and are often taken after oats. The yield is usually good, and the kinds chiefly grown are Prussian Blues, Early Emperors, Black-Eyed Susans, and Duns. They are cut with a hay-mower and raked into wind-rows, and either stacked or threshed at once; the latter, when convenient, is the best method, as the peas shell out greatly when in stacks.
Peas may be sown in June or July, and are harvested in the beginning of January.
Beans are not greatly grown, as they are not considered a paying crop.
There is a fodder crop which I have not
