GRASS SEED.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1054, 17 February 1911, Page 8

GRASS SEED.

s apvance in_ Price expected. J 1 . i DunnC' tho present season " (says. the f -"Journal of-the Department of Agricul--I ture") the prices, of • grass ~ seeds of •'nearly .all'descriptions will be-much-,in jadva£ce of those' of tho past , few years. Tho failure of thb Amorican cocksfoot t 'harvest :has been the causa of large ship|f meWts of. New seed- to the f; iUnited'. States,' and, as', this season's crop. jf!Jn the;Dominiofl.is light on average; the price : ;locallv''will bo extromoly. high for |..&<oorisideraDlo' timo to come. White f' clover', owingito the small, European, harvest, .'has advonccd ouite 50 per cent., and generally one of the cheapest of r grasses 1 ,.' last' season. worth jC22 per ton, f is-now quoted'at over i!4O j>er;ton., Tho local', ryo grass harvest, ownijf'to unfarouinbld'weather conditions, is almost cer- £ tain to;'.be considerably below the avert age, :ari'd. prices 'will in- accordance boE much;,h"iojh<>r than'jisuah This increase, in f prices'will'naturally, render tho. sowing of {; hush!burns an' exnensivo operation, and Y farmots"will be likely to reduco .tho f amount 1 of seed used per acre. This pol-, t iey is,"however, a'very bad; one; as it' j will result in a'thin sward;-nnd allow the P.'germination of any weed'seeds that'may (• happen-to fall on. the ground. • .