GRASS SEEDS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XVII, Issue 7173, 6 June 1919, Page 3

GRASS SEEDS

Rise in British Prices

Griss s^cla are expected to c"-st a fihujou.s price this sais >n in (J ea* Britain. A eor;os[-o:id<Uit, writ ng in a Scottish, cxclia-'ge, pu's the c ?t of seevUfiz at £ 1 an a* ra for s?cd to hy •iowa a pasture th^t is to lie for ihr c or four vows. Tie suggests that farmers ;Ju'ulu refrain from sowing seeds at that pi ice, and th-'.t instead thfy rhoul-.l keep their existing pastures longer freo from the plough. This raises a question of rotation. InA^r the grays tee-'l bus'ness is annually ws:-r:h thous-.nds of pounds to the far trers. vSwrdeu can trace a 25 per c?nt aidhion to h?r' growth of cereals t.hruu r h the iiiluence of the plant bridling station atSvalof. Denmark, through a sim-hr agency, has captured th<"> Uritlsh tradu in cocksfoot. Ayr ahiro hv-lda the field in respegt of the pr> tiuctii v (if perennial ryegrass seed, . \ Sottish statior, it is being urged, may bo expected to do as much for it as Svul-.t has doua for te oals in