IN A BAD WAY

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 9 May 1931, Page 8

IN A BAD WAY

SOITHERN GRASS SEED Latest information, is to tlie effect that grass seed i ops in South Otago arc in a. had way generally. Unsuitable weather has caused a fiuv percentge of germination, aoid niucfi c.l the aye and brown top is smutted. Mr R. B. Teament, <d the Department of agriculture, in. supplying, those acts whilst answering a reporter’s inquiry, added the. significant remark that Otago and S.uifilapd contribute s*>' of the nine milion pounds weight of the Dominion’s annual 'output of rye grass 'cod, so it i s unfortunately obvious that lb 1 reduction, of this source of revenue to New Zealand is a serious mat to”.