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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2337, 27 January 1913, Page 6

What a showing up the A grind I oral Department is getting now that the secretary lias given the show away ; ami yet the Reform Ministry is going further than any other Ministry in expenditure on this ineuhus. If Mr Massey’s Government are wise, they will drop the Agricultural Department’s experiments like a hot potato, and semi the hundreds of experts ami inspectors to follow 1 arming on their own. Take the regrassing of mountain runs for an example. It is said that a thousand pounds worth of grass seed was dumped on Otago Central runs to no purpose. The Forestry Department at Tapanni has shown for years that, all the runs need is a rest and to be kept clear of stock and rabbits for a couple of years and nature will do the rest, ami re-sloek with indigenous grasses equal to what the runs were in the-sixties, before the tires tick and over-stocking wore out (lie pastures. At one of these firms in I lie North Island experiments have been going on for some lime In prove what grasses were most suitable to sow in Central Otago. Why were these seed beds not established at Naseby or Eweburn, as these places would have been ideal for such an undertaking? Let the Government Agricultural Department experts visit Conical Hills forest reserves, and they will quickly learn bow to re-grass our mountain areas with fodder plants. —“ Tapanui Courier.”