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Shannon News, 8 February 1929, Page 3

A new grass that 3s Maid to promise to revolutionise stock husbandry has appeared—'and not in America, According to the director of the division of botany of the Department of Agriculture at Durban, that organisation has secured a grass of outstanding merit and great promise. It is know.! as "woolly finger grass." The average cfsriying capacity of Pretoria veldt was usually estimated at 30 acres per beast, he said, but by laying doAvn one acre of this gra-ss under dry laud conditions, it had been shown conclusively that it was possible to change the carrying capacity of the veldt from 30 acres to a beast to one acre per beast. "If this can be done on a large scale this experiment Avill be of immense value" naively adds the authority, quoted. If the millions of ncres in Africa can be made to carry a beast to the acre the other Avill be left well behind.