CATTLE AND COCKSFOOT
A North Canterbury sheepfarmer who five years ago began to ran a few cattle with his sheep has had remarkable success in improving a block of tussock, danthonia, and browntop which has never previously yielded much in the way of feed. The block is part of a spur which normally 'lies rather dry, i s too steep for the plough tor the most part, and carries a thin soil. Last winter the farmer fed cattle 'Y™,, se cond-elass,hay along the crest of the spur The hay contained cocks-™,-and.£ed,and white t'lover, and this year, with plenty of moisture, all three SS£ Ie SJ’ a yt established extremely well. They- have taken a good grin wherever the hay was fed, and are now dominant over the danthonia and browntop. A most encouraging de.that dung pats away feedl "g araa are all showing vigorous growth of cocksfoot and clovers. The unusually favourable re cently has no doubt been large y responsible for the robust establishment of the good species, but P??.ro ?Y ou td seem, to be every possibility that the cocksfoot will hang on now even m normal dry seasons. 6
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27071, 20 June 1953, Page 5
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