RYE-GRASS AND THE DROUGHT.
.;■ (lil TELEGRAIPU-fPBESS ;ABSOCJATIbN.r " ■■■•■■;". 1 ■ Mastertoii, March 24. . Yesterday the, opinion, of a local .farmer .and a settler, of long, exporien.co in pastoral mattsl's wis telegraphed to the effect that rye-grass ivas likely to have suffered severely by the drought, and by present appearances had done so.to such an extent that on a good .many properties it was probable that this grass ivOiild hot revive again, and, anyhow, that what_ did, wbnid bb of little 'use this season. . This mere expression of opinion lifts ; been, accepted in some quarters as a positive statcmelit cf l'actj altiioUgli oareful mention Was niado . that the fanner il) question said it would'bs a little while before his opinion coUld .be endotged or. bthchVise by •pastoral development. However, other settlers spoken to!; to-day by an " Age " reporter pSjiressed.tlie opinion that it was not at all improbable that the extl-cme severity of the drought would .mean, that on the ;wofst-a(fected area 3 would die out. A Forhridgo sottler, said that indications on his property. were in tho direction prophesied, and when, the, warn, weather suporvoued after the present rain ho would not bo •at"all surprised to sco his paddock minus "rye-grass. •
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 155, 25 March 1908, Page 7
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