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Otago Witness, Issue 2200, 30 April 1896, Page 7

"" "~~~ ;" ' • ' ~~ " Wl-Mi— -, uTfi snwiKfl I fi§iQr f *j[^ | '^^>^F9is& HE* iLj jutusir it h^ j autumn "We have tlie following- VaHefies fin Stocfe. : ..... Swedes.— BUTTON'S CRIMSON KING YellOW FIeaII.— BUTTON'S GKEICN TOP SCOTCH White HfPBRIAL GBEEtf GLOBff (Extract from Utter revived by TOTHILL, WATSON is Co.) , - Auckland, New Zoaland 13th Anrfl 1893 I have just returned from a visit; to Waikato district, which I visited on purpose to see how Chewing&'s Fescue is doing there. I saw one paddock. From memory I daresay there were about 100 acres in it. It had beea laid down flva yeara aa>b« Mr F. B. Rich with a first-class mixture of grasses, including 71b Poverty Bay Ry.£raes, 71b Cocksfoot, some Crested Dogsttil, Timothy, Clover, etc., aod only 21b Chewiugß's Fescue. This paddock had been well done to, ploughed several times, a crop of turuips tint in with a liberal dose of manure and fed off with sheep. Now nearly all the grasses have disappeared except a li ' tie cocksfoot, but the Fescue has spread all over the paddock, and is looking very well, I also saw the lawn in front of the Thaioe* Valtoy Company's house at Lichfield. Chewings's Fescue wan sown on it five years ago, together with some Poverty Bay ryegrsss seed. The lawn is now a close, thick mat of Fescue, with only a plant of Yorkshire fog showing here and there. Again at the" tack of Lichfield township 1 wa» shown a 10-acre paddock of very poor laud, whk;h waa sown quite recently with l&lb Chewings's F«cne alone. It would have been better if sown with some clover as a protection, but nevertheless it is thriving well and will sooa cover the paddock. I also saw the woolshed piddock at Lichfield, where this Fescue is almost the only grass left, aiid it is evidently thriving. At Woodstock, Mr Rich's own place, I went over about 112 acres recently sown with about lßlb Cbewings'a Fescue and a little clover It is a first-class " take all over, and there will be a thick s*ard very coon. Another paddock has been gown witb turnips and fescue and *howß a very good braird. Mr Rich is just about sowing 30001b Chewings's Fescue on a paddock he has prepared for it. Mr Rich imported a Urge quantity of Festuca Duriuscula Borne years ago, and sowed it on the Thames Valley Compauy's land. It came away very well, but grew a different plant from Chewings's Fescue, and moreover it died out like the other grasses. Mr l< ich bos tried every grass he can thiDk of, includir g the bard fescue, and none have stood in tho land. Wherever he has sown Chewings's Fescue it has not only held it own, bat has gradually spread over the land when the other gracses died out, of which I had ocular demonstration in the cate of the paddock sown five yeara ago, with a splendid mixture of grasses, including only 21b Chewings's I'e.cue, and in which paddock the Fescue has now practically full possession. I am quite satisfied this Fescue is exactly what is wanted for the enormous tracts of poor land in the Waikato, Taupo. and other districts. / .Sr zf . ™ I Lf UnitiaDlraa ?~ SOLiIS ACMESI^ra'S SUTTOM'S SSI2BS.