Kikuyu Grass
A Ruawai settler who planted some Kikuyu grass on one of the poorest patches of his farm has been closely watching its growth. During the driest portion of this summer it has continued to grow and spread. The owner has got “windy” and on Monday dug up the whole patch, a couple of big waggon loads, and carted them off his farm. In Australia farmers are willingly paying up to £2 per 100 plants of about four inches in length. It is not so many years since farmers in the North were digging out paspalum for fear ot it getting a hold of their best flats and to-day they are equally as keen to get it into their pastures —no wonder is history repeating itself with Kikuyu.
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Northland Age, Volume 28, Issue 32, 11 April 1928, Page 6
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129Kikuyu Grass Northland Age, Volume 28, Issue 32, 11 April 1928, Page 6
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