INTENSIVE RESEARCH
The intensive elimination process by which the Plant Research Station at Palmerston North had arrived at another and selected ryegrass seed for propagation on a commercial scale, was outlined by Mr. E. Bruce Levy, agrostologist, in a lecture to members of young farmers' clubs. He stated that 20,000 single ryegrass plants had been tested and a selection narrowed down to the best ten, based on their qualities in respect of palatability, rustresistance, persistence, and recovery after cutting. They had then been cultivated under glass-house conditions, producing enough seed to sow an acre, and from the latter sufficient seed was produced for twenty ;icres. Thirty-two acres were now being grown on a Kairanga property from which it was hoped to secure 800 bushels of certified ryegrass seed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22421, 18 May 1936, Page 10
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128INTENSIVE RESEARCH New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22421, 18 May 1936, Page 10
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