COCKSFOOT YIELD
' AN INTERESTING ItECORD. The cocksfoot yield, this 1 last season has been, distinctly disappointing !says the A karoa correspondent of the Christchurch "Press"). A general estimate by those capable of judging places the output from the Peninsula as barely exceeding 12,000 bags, bomo seven summer since nearly 100,000 bags were recorded, whilo in a particularly good season fifteen years back the tally reached 150,000 bags. The causes of this serious decrease are not far to seek—a succession of droughty years, the consequent impoverishment of the grass itself, a lighter crop, a "mailer t-rea of grass-seed paddocks "shut up," and, in respect to this season at least, heavy rain coming about Christmas time, instead of at the end of October, when it would have been lhost beneficial. An average of three bags of "clean" seed to the acre has been a very rare exception this last summer. Taking it all round the average would pan out roughly at about 11 bags to the acre.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 205, 18 May 1918, Page 10
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165COCKSFOOT YIELD Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 205, 18 May 1918, Page 10
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