SPREAD OF DANTHONIA.
IN THE MARLBOROUGH DISTRICT. •The Biologist of the" Agricultural Department reports that during a recent trip Awatere he was greatly imposed with the spread of danthonia in that district. Throughout all the lower country, and especially on the sunny faces, where originally the vegetation was mainly the silver tussock, a thick sward of several varieties of both Dantihoiiia semiannularis and D. pilosa, is now present to the exclusion of nearly all other grasses. Higher up the valley, where the main grasses a.re both silver and hard tussock, danthonia is not yetf an important element of the pastures. It is, however, only a matter of time when danthonia. will lie throughout the whole of the Awatere Valley the most important and valuable constituent of the natural pastures up to an elevation of 2500 ft. It is onJy a few years ago since danthonia was quite, a despised grass in Marlborough,, bu,t farmers there now fully; recognise its great value on unploughed land where the annual precipitation of mokture is small.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10270, 24 June 1911, Page 5
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172SPREAD OF DANTHONIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10270, 24 June 1911, Page 5
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