GROWTH OF GRASS
STIMULUS SINCE RAIN
SWARD IN COUNTRY
In spite of the colder weather conditions that have ruled since the rain, the growth of grass in the coun try districts is remarkable. In all parts of the Rangitaiki Plains the pastures have been refreshed to a very marked degree and in some places the grass has. come away like an early spring growth. Where lor two months previously the paddocks had been laid bare under the stress of the drought conditions, to-day the late autumn rain has brought forth a fresh sward of grass that will mean the conservation of the winter feed for some weeks, though the new sup. ply is altogether too late to be of any benefit for the present milking season. "If the present grass had been just six weeks earlier" said a well known Thornton farmer last Saturday to a BEACON representative "it would I have been worth thousands to this district and would have put many farmers in "an easier frame of mind with regard to the coming winter.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 6, 3 May 1939, Page 5
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