SILVER-BEET SEED.
Up to the present time the Department has been.' in tho same position as tho privato grower in' regard to the difficulty of securing seed of the desired varieties of silver-beet for stock-feeding purposes. This year the work of selecting seed has been instituted at the experimental farms, and it is hoped that next autumn small samples of seed of the approved varieties will be available for distribution. It is expected that several of the leading seed firms in the Dominion will have seed of the varieties recommended by the Department on the market next year. Ono of the leading European seed firms, Messrs Villmorin and Co., of Paris, as a result of a personal investigation by the firm's principal member of the demonstration in New Zealand in regard to silver-beet as a forage crop for stock, has decided to cultivate for seed the types of silver-beet recognised by the Department as the most valuable for stock-feeding. No doubt the French seed will be on the New Zealand market in due course. The seed of the varieties used in southern • co-operative field experimental workwas obtained from Messrs Montgomery and Co., seed merchants, Christen ureh.—Agricultural Journal.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 August 1913, Page 6
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197SILVER-BEET SEED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 August 1913, Page 6
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