BETTER PASTURES.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20494, 12 March 1932, Page 10

BETTER PASTURES.

INSTRUCTIVE WINCHMORE , EXPERIMENT.^ The value of selection and the * general use of tlie better classes of t&f, * especially with ' ryegrass, i** P 3^ u J e management, lias been clearly strated in an interesting- ® enes jj° f > ? plots laid down in November, py tlio Fields' Division of the of Agriculture' on the " farm ;Oi Hunter Morris, at Winchmore. r ' ;* . The work, which has been carried. o in a thorough manner and on a prehensive scale, consists of a. ~<A number of plots of ryegrass -sdcctej from seed grown in different P ar - New Zealand, and include ryegrass P from Hawke's Bay/ Poverty - . Sandon, Waira.rapa, Canterbury, Soul Canterbury, Otago, Southland. - T have been subjected to the winie rial treatment and. grazing control, anu-, . show differences so marked as obvious tp. the mast casual) obserw-j.. Last Novcmber an interesting ne ■■ i - was held 'on the plots.. the present time are even more-ma - The trials iiow"/in their -second- y reveal the" outstanding superiority t the Hawke's Bay, Poverty Bay, ■ Sandon types over other types, not P J • „ in the manner, they have withstood test of-, the recent, drought, but great - autumn recovery of the &= persistent •strains, which,- ' with . recent rains, come away strongly,'■■W" a dark green leafygrowth, a sward outstandingly thicker other : typgs. In many v&f i"J bare spaces now take the place ©I . plants, and these plots are mark 'j:. spindly growth, and dried up-.app ance, with a large'percentage P , stalks. Their appearance adjoining better types should; convince conservative of the inferiority ,°t • t erage commercial South Island lines.--j ' , there is. a big variation .from. baa ■ good between Canterbury types-is . clearly but the .superior y. of - the • Northern types over even .. . best of the Canterbury in the trials »...... . quite, obvious. ; Some large areas of; certified Tycgi seed have been laid down in the ■> 5 burton County this autumn, ■_ - • The Agriculture classes of the tiig' School and the Technical School As butron are paying- a.-, visit to. .the* P 1 at Winchmore early next week.

it has been definitely proved that. the ''good fattening" pastures ox B " tain the ash of the grass plants co - tains a high percentage or lime J* phosphate, while the bad fatten « pastures contain .a: low percentage- • ti>© good pastures of Britain are go because of th'e lime and phosphate grass contains it is even more inipo ant that'the grass of the New ' ea r^ (r ) 1 dairying pastures should contain, a «> percentage of- phosphate and I'jne, mg that tlie cattle obtain _their -. nourishment from them and that ai-e grazed on them practically, . whole year. Emphatically l.me ngj. phosphate are the most imppriaii eral requirements of our P 3 . stM^A m ilk only for the sake of CP ft'c " production, but m order that.our may be kept in vigorous heaitn.

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