On Farm and Orchard

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 9 November 1935, Page 4

On Farm and Orchard

PASTURE SEEDS

APPLICATIONS FOR CERTIFICATION UNDER AGRICULTURAL DEPART* I MENT’S SCHEME PERENNIAL RYEGRASS, CLOVERS AND COCKSFOOT Dr. D. L. Freeman, of the* Nelson branch of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture, advises that regulations pertaining to the certification of perennial ryegrass, cocksfoot and clovers for the 1935-36 season have been drafted. THE CLOSING DATES Application, ho states, for certification of ryegrass and cocksfoot close this year on 30th November. A separate form is required for each paddock entered, and an entrance fee for each crop entered must accompany application forms. Applications for the certification of clovers close on 31st December next, but for paddocks . where ryegrass and clovers are being grown together and both crops are eligible for entry into certification, both crops must be entered at the one time before 30tli. November. In a case of that nature, namely where white clover eligible for certification is separated from certificated ryegrass at threshing time the field charges on the one kind of seed also cover the second kind. Should each crop be harvested at a different time full field charges are payable on each crop. Applications, together with the requisite fees, should be forwarded to the Instructor in Agriculture for the district and any entry forms should be obtained from him. POSITION CONCERNING LATE ENTRIES Completed entry forms, together with

1 the, prescribed fees, must be actually received by the Department on or before the closing date for entries. Subject to the Department’s convenience, late entries may be accepted, provided that additional late entry fee is paid by each grower in respect of each crop for which entry is received after closing date. This fee must accompany the application form and is additional to the ordinary entrance fees.The following is a brief indication of crops which are eligible:— PERENNIAL RYEGRASS AND COCKSFOOT (a) Areas sown with mother seed 'are eligible in the first harvest season, f (b) Areas sown with permanent pasture seed must first be harvested and a sample taken and tested before an enti-y may be accepted. If the sample reaches the necessary standard the area in question may be entered ?he following season. (c) Any area from which a sample has been taken and reported on as being up lo certification standard. WHITE CLOVER SEED (a) Areas sown with mother seed which have passed through at least one harvest season. (b) Areas sown with permanent pasture seedi which have passed through at least one harvest season'and from which a sample has been taken for trial, and reported on as being up to certification standard. (c) All areas from which a sample has been taken by the Department and a sample trial report received describing the! area as eligible for entjry. MONTGOMERY RED CLOVER (a) Areas sown with mother seed. (b) Any area from which a sample lias been taken and reported on as eligible for entry. In all cases areas must not have been rejected on the latest sample trial report.