SOUTHLAND GRASS-SEED.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1400, 28 March 1912, Page 8

SOUTHLAND GRASS-SEED.

A POOR HARVEST. The large quantities of grass seed expected to bo harvested ill Southland this season by hundreds of farmers will (says the "Xews") fall much short of the estimates. Some (unfortunately a very few) have threshed out fair samples (241b. to 221b. samples), a largo number have threshed out light seed, and a. still larger number have abandoned their crops either in stook or still standing. Those who were unable to get a reaper and binder into their crops were perhaps the l>est off of all. The grass has threshed itself out on to the ground, but n certain amount of good conrse feed is available and suitable for cattle. One farmer states that lie has let a large paddock of this kind of feed to a cattle dealer at Is. (id. per head until eaten off, a poor substitute for his estimated seventy bushels to the acre of good seed. Still, ho has much to be thankful for, as many of his neighbours have been to the expense of cutting and stooking and turning the stooks several times, and finally burning them.

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