SEED FOR AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 310, 25 September 1943, Page 3

SEED FOR AMERICA

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, September 24. An increase from 150 tons to 500 Jons in the quota of chewings fescue which New Zealand may send annually to America has come about as result of a viot to the United States of Mr. J. Murray Wilson, who represented the New Zealand exporters of the seed ; .practically all of which is grown in Southland. Fescue growing was increasing in America, but the market could be developed to absorb a considerable increase, stated Mr. Wilson today. Up to the time of nis visit only 15 per cent, of fescue was used in mixtures for aerodromes and runways, and for private lawns, but as a result of his advocacy up to 25 per cent, was now being used. Fescue was used only in localities north of Washing-, ton, as conditions in the south xyere too dry 'for its firm establishment. This Southland-developed grass would be used more’and more for golf courses when the game was resumed to a much greater extent after the war.