CRASS ON DREDCED LAND.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 44, 2 December 1913, Page 10

CRASS ON DREDCED LAND.

CROP OF CLOVER AND COWGRASS. In the November issue of 'The Journal of Agriculture' an illustration is given of a tine crop of cowgrass and clover growing on land that lias been dredged. Mr R. Grant (rabbit inspector, of (lore) writes to the journal as follows: " The accompanying illustration shows a portion of ' a field of clover and cowgrass of 100 acres grown by Mr John Turnbul!. of Waikaka, on land that has been dredged. "Before dredging the area was good agricultural land, typical of the couiitrv in the Waikaka Valley. After the land had been dredged it. was harrowed and given a seeding of 3!b of cowgrass, lib of white clover and 201b of ryegrass per acre. In six months' time it was stocked. "The paddock has now been down In pasture for nine years, and still shows excellent eowgrass and white clover, but the ryegrass Ibas practically disappeared. Mr Turnbull informs" me that in wet seasons, when his other grass paddocks are wet and hold the water, this paddock is always practically dry on the surface, the dredging having unproved the drainage. This is a good example of what can be grown on this class of land."