NEW ZEALAND COCKSFOOT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 305, 24 December 1926, Page 14

NEW ZEALAND COCKSFOOT.

APPRECIATED ABROAD. ' ''Sheep and cattle farmers in this, i country (runs an article in the South! African '"Friesland Journal") will be interested to learn that a farmer in the Ermelo district of the Eastern Transvaal • has succeeded in establishing an imported yarietv of graso which bids fair to alter completely the present conditions of sheep and cattle farming on the High Veld. The grass is known as New Zealand Cocksfoot. It is not affected at all by frost. Last season 1200 eneep were grazed on 3-5 morgen, and there wa. enough to spare. At the present time there are 30<)0 sheep on the farm, and within a month the number will have been increased to 5000. As, for four months in the winter, there is not a mouthful of grass on the High Veld, the importance of this new experiment can readily be appreciated. The Hon. A. G. Robertson, formerly Administrator of the Transvaal, and a recognised sheep breeder, is stated to be greatly impressed. The farmer claims that he alone pos-' sesses the secret of establishing the grass permanently, and he has declined a'■ request from the Government to divulge [ it. He has been experimenting with the grass now for years, and been very sue- ; cesaful. ,, . ,