SEED CROPS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2873, 17 February 1916, Page 2

SEED CROPS.

Tbe quality of grass aiwl clover seed produced in the \Wrarapa this year is !-a:d to be .second to none, and it is only recently that farmers have paid much attention 1,, thi.s branch of (heir activities (say s tho Post's special reporter). Seed raising is as profitable as it is important. Cowgrass aud red clover are doing very well, and some l> returns are expected. The first cut is made, into bay, which is worth aI. least £3 lO.s per lon. From the second cut the .seed is saved, and this will bring in a return of !)d per lb. A. plePit'fu! supply of bumble bees i> essential lo the sueeoss of these crops. Tho bees act as fertilisers, and as they cannot operate no well large areas, small lots should be grown for preference. The yields of rye-grass have l liocii go fid aud nricos quite i.n -tin , producers' favour. There seems to be a big future before .sood-pro-diicinc, because, from all accounts, tbr> "Wairavavpa dislvici is particularly favourable for it.