HOW TO BUY GOOD GRASS SEED

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 50, 29 May 1950, Page 4

HOW TO BUY GOOD GRASS SEED

Questions & Answers (By E. R. Marryatt, Field Instructor, Whakatane)

Question: What Certified class of seed should I buy? Answer: If you are interested only in pasture production you need buy only Certified Permanent Pasture (PP) or Standard (same class) seed. It is cheaper than Certified Mother and Pedigree and is generally just as suitable for espermanent pasture regrazing. Some Certified of this class may have and some ci this could possibly be, but most necessarily is, not quite as good as that Certified by plot test. Comparisons have shown that this possible variation is barely worthy of consideration. Had any great variation been found here some modification of nomenclature would have been adopted for UV and plot-tested seed.

Same Variation The same kind of variation could occur in Certified white clover seed in this class but here a distinction is made between the picric.' acid tested seed (PA) and the plottested seed. All PP or Standard class white clover seed which has come from a known-area (i.e. an area' seed) carries on the tag the w T ords “Pedigree StHH9BH brackets after the name (vHBHH Zealand White Clover — Permanent Pasture Seed Strain). This seed could is,'better than tKBBBB