THE COCKSFOOT CROP

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXIII, Issue 6498, 10 January 1939, Page 2

THE COCKSFOOT CROP

AN ESTIMATE BY GROWERS FOR PRESENT EASON Smaller Crop this Year At the annual meeting of the Akaroa Cocksfoot Seed Growers' Association, the chairman, Mr F. G. Armstrong, asked growers in the various parts of the district to give an esimate of the crops for the present season. This estimate showed that owing to a number of growers going out of seed this year and the seed in many localities not being up to last year's standard, that the crop would be about three-quarters of last year's crop. This means that the present season's crop is in the vicinity of 8,000 sacks of farmers' dressed seed.. In the Akaroa and Okains Bay districts the crops are looking well, but in Little River and Wainui and French Farm areas, there is less seed and the crops are thin. In Pigeon Bay and Duvauchelle districts growers considered the crop yield would also be down on last year.. Tares were very notice able in the crops owing to the large amount of rain experienced. In Le Bons Bay the crops were considered better than last year, with the warm weather experienced, there has been a great improvement in the seed and the actual yield of the paddocks will determine the size of the crops. It was reported that a number of new areas would be in cocksfoot this year, but there are large areas which have not been closed up. Reaping Commenced It was reported at Friday's meeting that reaping had commenced in the earliest paddocks in the Pigeon Bay and Little Akaloa districts. Patching has also commenced in the early paddocks round Akaroa harbour. The seed i 3 now colouring up all over the district and if the warm weather continues it will ripen quickly.