A GOOSE AND HIS GBASS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 2530, 13 September 1893, Page 4

A GOOSE AND HIS GBASS.

Au occasional correspondent writes :—: — There lived at-Turakina in the old days a farmer with advanced ideas on agricultural and paßtoral matters. One department he considered required his attention was laying down land to permanent pasture. He told the settlers an improvement was necessary, but they couldn't see it. Tbe farmer could, however, and he set himself to institute the reform. He cultivated a small pafcch of ground, and tried many varieties of grasses, hut when the plants grew they pleased not tbe grower. Business called him to Wellington, and as he journeyed along tbe road on horseback be happened to notice a new kirjd oi grass, and, more fortunate still, it was in ear and the seed ripe. He immediately dismounted, and made a olosa sorntiny of the planta. " Conldn't be better," said he, in joy ; » the very grass to improve my pasture. I'll show those Johnny Raws how to turn off sleek cattle." ' He gathered all the seed and tied it in his handkerchief. The seed was planted in due course, and in two years, by careful saving, tbere was enough seed to scatter a thin coating over tbe paddocks. Ie was a great day when the seed was sown, and the farmer piotured wondrous results from bis extra- ', ordinary grass. \ In dv& season did that seed take root and sprout, and it went ahead thnct faster tban the green bay 'tree. Scon it became like unto a prodigal, for it wouldn't be kept at home. It joined is-ue with neighbors' grasses, it crossed rivers and gorges, climbed mountains and spread o'er valleys. But the unfortunate part is to come. That grass, my dear friends, was not a success, and none doth bless its unwise cultivator, Farmers christened ihe plant what they considered the reformer. Nance — " Goose " grass. Moral — "He who bows phill reip."