PERSISTENT LUCERNE
Farmers from time to time find that lucerne, once well established, is hard to kill. A Mid-Canterbury farmer last year decided that a stand was past its best, and ploughed it under six inches with the intention of taking a crop of wheat. The land is a free silty loam, and the cultivation for the wheat was not extensive, and certainly not enough to discourage the lucerne. The wheat drilled in the paddock came away very well indeed, but so did the lucerne, and it became apparent that there was no chance of harvesting the wheat crop. The paddock was cut and made into silage while the wheat was still green and succulent.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26515, 1 September 1951, Page 5
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