RYEGRASS SEED.
QUESTION OF CLEANLINESS. Some concern has been expressed that, with the present, wide demand for Hawke's Bay ryegrass there, is danger of introducing burr clover with the seed into clean districts, as this weed occurs extensively in Hawke's Bay. Commenting on this matter in the Journal of Agriculture, the seed analyst, Plant Research Station, states that owing to the fact that hooked pods harvested with ryegrass do not shed readily the chances of hulled soed occurring in machine-dressed lines of ryegrass are very small, while the pods are, of course, easily dressed out. The Seed-testing Station records show that over a period of two years only a small percentage of the samples from Hawke's Bay have contained this impurity, and then only in very email quantity.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21100, 6 February 1932, Page 17
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