THE IMPORTATION OF COCKSFOOT.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I see by this morning’s Daily Times that a Canterbury deputation which waited upon the Minister of Agriculture urged that a penny per pound duty should be put upon cocksfoot. I think that no such duty should be imposed on any imported agricultural seeds. It would be against the interests of the men on the land if it were imposed. Cocksfoot has been imported for quite a number of years, chiefly from Denmark, owing to the production in New Zealand greatly decreasing, simply because the land is, being used to greater advantage for stock raising and dairying. The _ cocksfoot growers are simply not shutting oil the land, as was heretofore done. Most of the cocksfoot imported, especially from Denmark, is heavier per bushel, of greater germinating power, and cleaner than the average samples or New Zealand growth. —I am, etc., Adolph Moritzsen. Dunedin,. May 25.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20418, 26 May 1928, Page 13
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