£1000 OF SANDON RYE, READY FOR RAIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 657, 6 November 1909, Page 8

£1000 OF SANDON RYE, READY FOR RAIL.

:. The above represents a single order, of the'value of over ,£IOOO for 30 tons of San-. don Ryegrass, mixed with clovers, pto., ready for sowing, packed iri 4G2 sacks, leaving ; the seed establishment of.Mcssrs, Barraud »nd Abraham, Ltd., Palmerston IS'orth, in ten ■ lorries, for the railway station. . ' This alone, shows the enormous strides that the Ryegrass. Seed growing; in,the , ; Sandon Distriot is making in the favour of thosewho have laud to sow 'dowh; Tho seed is grown on clean pastures, of a naturo eminently suitablo for ryegrass raising, and' whore a few years ago about 1000 bushels at the outside would cover the amount of the-'■■ .-output, this year there .must have been fully 35,000 bushels of .seed raised, for fully , 34,000 bushels of seed wore put through A.,J. Palmer a'nd.Co.'s Seed' Cleaning Ma-■'. . ■ • chinc3, whero the bulk of tho Sandon Ryegrass is dressed.: This would give iri machine-. . ''dressed seed about 26,000 bushels, of which fully'four-fifths was purchased" from tlio * growers-by Barraud.arid Abraham, Ltd., at their Palmerston North andFeildingstores. ■'' "' ; It'is characteristiciseed, small and gerierally: of very heavy weight per bushel. ' Sniidon is.also.'coni.ing into great prominence through its'Crestcd Dogstail Seed. A '■'« beautiful sample is grown there, of a golden colour, and when put'on-the market'is ex,:ceptionally olean. This oeed. is exported, not piily. all.':river-'the.Dominioii; but-to■.otherI'■'1'■' ••'■' '.countries,w.yelL.;.,; v',.-..,,■■,..iu...'1t';-.'-.-,'' ;..,."-•- ... Sift