USE OF CLOVER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 125, 30 May 1938, Page 9

USE OF CLOVER.

IMPROVING U.S. LAND.

QUEST OF AUSTRALIAN.

"There are- millions of acres in the Southern States of the U.S.A. that will not grow white clover, but which would be definitely improved by the sowing of subterranean clover," eaid Mr. T. Purves, managing director of F. H. Bmnning and Company, seed importers, of Melbourne, who, with his eon, Mr. J. K. Purves, wae a passenger for San Francisco by the Monterey when she arrived from Sydney this* morning. They will visit Arizona. Xew Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and other Southern States before returning to the Pacifb Coast at Seattle. Mr. Purves, senior, hopes to be back in Australia by September, when he will act as one of the judges at the Royal Agricultural Show at Melbourne.

"There is a similarity between the class of country we are going to inspect and large tracts of Commonwealth land, ,, said Mr. Purves. "With a little development we should be able to build up a good business between the two countries. , '

Mr. Purvee said that a new subterranean clover perfected about two or three years ago was proving popular in Australian and Tasmanian districts, where the rainfall was over 30 inches annually. It was called Tallabrook, after the place where it wa9 first successfully grown. It grew further intD the season and was particularly noted for bringing back the poorer types of land.

"The union of scientific theory and practice in the development of pasture grasses will play a big part in the development of countries," he concluded.