GRASSES.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 623, 18 May 1876, Page 3

GRASSES.

Fir, — In your is»ue of to-day, you published a t!ef cription of a grass suitable for very poor laud, iiz, annual meadow grass. There can be none belter, but there is i-s good ; and as m nil pastures Tarielj is a grand object. lam induced to jlulio this communication lor the benefit of your ccrrespondent " v cttler,"' and others situated like him. Creited Do^tail (cyno-surus cristatus) is a grass possessing excellent qualities, and one • vhich would ke of great use in spreading over tfce lulls and other lands, wnich for a generation j trhaps to come will nor, some of them not tun then, betaken into cultivation. It'gives a '2i odoiatetiEDOunt of good juicj herbage, which Jb much hked ly all # ki: da of stock, and one jrest adyantpgo if, that they ull lefuso to eat ll c seed ttcmg, «o.t!.at onrc it takes hold of the JOtind it spread* rapidly by the action of the •»md ard ram. It will ai.y where, on the Tciy poorest toil, .ind\uroa few furrows mn ■Pith the plough, as couhl e.i&ily be done, along lie crests of open iulf!C3 acd sown with this tiass, it would »oon spread down tho sided of the 3 ill, affording pasture wliere thero is now m!h :igbufc fern, though it pro us well on poor to,l it docs better in richer land, and ia a glass &ui!ed for cur permanent pistures. — I am, (See, 1). Cambridge, IGtli May, 187 G.