USES OF PASPALUM.
A GOOD CHANGE RATION. [BY TELEUEAPH. —OWN COnnESPONDENT.] TE AWAMTJTTJ. Saturday. A Pokura district settler, when discussing the feed prospects yesterday, remarked that he proposed putting a fairsized paddock of his farm down in paspalum. He explained that he could not afford lucerne, and paspalum was the next best thing, because it gave an abundance of grass in the autumn —when other pastures are brown and dry. "Paspalum may bo lacking in nutriment," he said, "compared with the English grasses, but it makes a good change ration. It should not be condemned because stock given the choice of the two in a normal season invariably eschew paspalum, but this vigorous grower is a veritable God-send in a dry autumn. It can easily be kept down in an ordinary season by pasturing all your stock in the paspalum paddock, and only giving them the run of the other paddocks for a couple of hours daily. Anyhow, if the English grasses get ahead of, the. cows some of those paddocks can ,bo shut up for hay.'' '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18630, 11 February 1924, Page 10
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177USES OF PASPALUM. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18630, 11 February 1924, Page 10
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