GRASS FOR POOR LAND.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 622, 16 May 1876, Page 2

GRASS FOR POOR LAND.

Sin,— Can you or any of your readers tell ma th« beat kind of gra« to be sown on poor laud whioU is not worth cultitation, but might itill be mad* to produce food u aa outlying rua to a farm.— Yours, &C. SKTTiEB. Rangiriri, May (Kb 1876. [Annual meadow grass would probably bo the best discription of grass on poor laud or bill* which are never intended to bs cultivated. It ia tho most universally diffused of all grasses bainj; found not only in every situation in Great Britain, but in almost every country in the irorld, ftnd hence we may infer that if it obtained ■> footing in New Zealand, it would toon spread and afford a moderate iupply of herbage on ground which at present Tieldn only fern or titree, and little of ihat. It is greedily eaten by all kindi of stock, and although it doei not yield largely, it is almo»t constantly green and appeari to grow equally well ia summer or winter. It ii fuimliior to us all as the greeu gra.s of p*rks and iquirci ia towiu, and at the pe*t of gardenori in persisting to grow on footpaths and borden m spite of erery effort to get rid of it. Thii cha. ract»ri«tic ii howarer tho Tery one our correspoudent and others having poor land would wi«h to see in a graia for such localities u lie indicates ; but at the name time it u a grass that oould not he recommended to b» added to those grusio* which form our prnnanent pasture! or cultirated good Jaud. — Eu W T.J