CRASS FOR HILLS.
Writing from the Akitio country, our travelling -correspondent.; saysln , a leaflet issued .B'omti time "ago by the Department of Agriculture , it, was ' suggested that farmersBhoiilq - turn .their attention to .tlie sowing of natives grasses, such as danthonia, particularly in poorfand high country, and i]i travelling through the- districts which I : have lately, seen, it appears to be" almost - a' waste of mohey ; to sow a' good many of the-finer; English grasses, as. in a few years the majority, entirely "disappear, the prin- ; ■cipal surviving pasture; being composed -of .danthonia:aiid -fibrin., .On .these dry hills:rj'e 'does ;not. .last,:long;cocksfoot-.stands fairly >cl],- biit; it is verj- short and stunted; docst-nil' al«o stands ,wcl' .!
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 3
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113CRASS FOR HILLS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 3
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