Wheat And Grass
Sir,—So the North Island is to have its own wheat research institute to breed suitable wheats for North Island conditions. What is wrong with the South Island having a pasture research institute to breed suitable grasses and clovers for South Island conditions? There is more pasture grown in the South Island than there is wheat in the North, or ever likely to be. At the Grasslands Division plots at Palmerston North, they get over 170 rain days a year, an 80 per cent humidity, and a mild winter. Grasses from there are too soft for the South Island, or even east coast (North Island) conditions. New Zealand, climatically, is really two countries, east and west of the main ranges.—Yours, ORIENTAL. June 15, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 8
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