THE COCKSFOOT HARVEST

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2669, 15 January 1916, Page 3

THE COCKSFOOT HARVEST

Tho "Akaroa Mail" states that the prospects for this year's cocksfoot liaivest 011 Banks Peninsula are P erll^P 3 the poorest on record owing to the conttaulddry weather. The seed on the lower levels has been sacrificed owing to the great scarcity ot g[ asiin |> oven whero cattle have not been turned into it there is very little, showing. In some localities, how e^< sr,, seed <nves better promise, and it would be wrong to say this oro^ total failure. Some of tho nio» el paddocks are looking rema'UMj well considering the season, ot course, the. grass is stunted o«ing to the lack of moisture. iaken as . whole, however, an opliinißt ic cßfcimoto of this year's crop, would be 10,WU sacks, compared to tho usual Jo£oo of an average good year. A iev. tiaj of vain would do much to improve seed which is now- maturing m tl o husk. Autumn rams would also l ."ove the paddocks wonderfully foi Grazing purposes in the winter as there is very littlo bottom m most of the paddocks this year. The seed this yeai s verv free f™'» extraneous glasses and weeds, and a very clean sample, should be harvested. The price of cocksfoot this year also jironuses to be exceedingly good, as it is almost ceitaiu none will'bo shipped from Denmark, as it.s crop will be required in iMirope. A lino of "01,1 sack!' »l ln»t ,Y™r j» «j°l> was sold u fow days affo for 9|d., the , weyrht being in the reswa of Wlo..