Lucerne In Shingle
Even river-beds are now being oversown on the Lands and Survey Department’s Molesworth station. About two tons of lime pelleted seed was sown from the air at about Iffib to the acre on the Awatere. Acheron and Saxon river beds last spring. Some was also done two years ago. The lucerne has struck in the shingle and the station manager, Mr M. M. Chisholm, regards the experiment as promising and justifying doing this again. Heifers were grazing along the Awatere riverbed this week where oversowing had been done. Clover as well as lucerne was growing in
the shingle and apart from helping to stabilise the river-bed, Mr Chisholm said tliat these plants were helping to provide feed where there was also shelter and water for the cattle and thus spelling other country.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30983, 12 February 1966, Page 8
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135Lucerne In Shingle Press, Volume CV, Issue 30983, 12 February 1966, Page 8
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