NEW ZEALAND'S COCKSFOOT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1286, 15 November 1911, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND'S COCKSFOOT.

ITS VALUE TO DENMARK:. In the course of an interesting letter to the/'Christchurch Press," Mr. H. B. Sorensoh quoted the following extract from a letter ho has just received from a retired merchant in Copenhagen, with whom he corresponds:—"You will remember I told you I was tlie first importer of Cocksfoot grass seed from New Zealand to Denmark. ' I understand this last year's crop was a bad or small one, aud am told we aro not to expect any shipments from ybiir country. The first lot I imported was in the year ISB3 —since then it has taken well here, until at present, when we have a large export of this seed to Germany, England, and America, and it will probably surprise you to hear that from one farm alone here iii Sjaland (Zeeland), not far from Copenhagen, there was harvested this year cocksfoot grass seed to the value of 150,000 kroner." One kroner is about Is. ljd. It will thus be seen, says Jlr. Soienson, that tho result in English money is ,£B2BI us.. rather an eye-opener for New Zealand seed-growers, and an example to be emulated. The area of tho farm is not given, but farms in Denmark are not generally large.