WESTERN WOLTHS GRASS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2205, 18 July 1914, Page 8

WESTERN WOLTHS GRASS

'AN': interesting experiment. (By Teligraph.— Special Oorrenrondent.) "" Wanganul, July 17. One of tTio' delegates, Mr. M'Kenzie, of tKe Manawatu, attending tho Now Zealand Jersey Breeders' Conference here; gave a; pressman a striking illustration 'of. the new Western Wolths ryegrass. In May last year ho plough-ed'three-quarters' of aii aero which.had previously carried maize', which had been manured with two hundredweight .• of superphosphate; Ho then seeded it to Western Wolths two bushels per acre without manure of any kind! When ready for feeding-off, he put nine cows, on it for net less than four hours, daily for two months, and they '! did splendidly.. 'fhey were then taken off and put on green oats a foot high with the result that the test went down two points and the milk yield many pounds. After ton days, on oats they wero put back on Western Wojths and the test at once jumped up *3 points, or ono point better than before, whilo.the yield more than recovered itself. At the end of the third' month the paddock was shut up and on being harvested gave .twenty-eight bushels of. marketable seed. Mr. M'Kenzie added that tlio grass was ready for feeding-off in as short a time as six weeks after putting the seed in the ground. . .