Lawn Clippings
Sir, —I hear that a commercial firm is now drying grass and converting it into poultry feed. Every fine week-end of every New Zealand summer, householders cut thousands of lawns and collect thousands of tons of grass clippings. Some of these are composted, but
most are dumped or burned. Would It not be possible to collect these clippings, dry them and convert them into stock food for use during our all too frequent droughts? The work could be undertaken by the local body of the area and the money realised from the sale of the stock food would help keep down rates. Travelling in North Canterbury recently, I saw stock on bare fields, while the wide grass verge on each side of the road had quite long grass. One fanner had erected a temporary fence and put sheep to graze the enclosure, but most did nothing. Why could not this grass be cut and fed to stock? —Yours, etc.,
RATEPAYER. March 20, 1970.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32252, 21 March 1970, Page 10
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