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Otago Witness, Issue 2201, 7 May 1896, Page 7

We have flic ibi&owisig Varieties Im Stock : »» n 1 1 - ■ — _ — < swedCß - B T' s SIT * ellow """"?" ifiss White "^-^r^&^i^^ I gsg- - B5 m ■: lift— . wr -■£ fe^if i,lrf ,, f rom 81 * *<>^ aikato . di8 * ri j*» W ££V ***** on purpose to see how Chewing*** 1 Fescue is doinc there. I aaw one paddock. From memory I daresay there were about 100 acres in itT l't haT been k?d 'down 1 flw vLKr» fa» M ■ D. Rich with tt-flrst-classrinxturs of grasses, 71b 'Poverty Bay iWms, 71b Cocksfoot, some Crested Dogstail, Timothy, CloVer, etc., and only 2lb Ohewings'a Fescne. This paddock had been well l done lofplouKhed I seSSSI ■ tone? a raM" V1 ! " 01lo ll £ m 7-^1 * illh %*} *«*« ?j manure .and ««* off^with sheep. Now n&arlyall the grassesfoave disappeared except atiitle cocksfoot, but the Fescue has spread all over the paddock, and h looking very well. I alKw the fawn \^ Uont ; of the ThamS ,X > faffl^P^Pfy*™^ •Ohewmga's.Feacue wuoovn on.lt five ran ago, together with some Poverty Bay ryegrass seed. The lawn is now a close, thick mat of Fescue, with only* plant of Yorkshire fog showing Cc and there. °Aga?nat?hf back of 'Lichfield townsktpl was shown a 10-acre mddpek of very poor land, which was sown -quite recently with 151b Chewiugs's Fescue alone. It would have been better if sown with some clover as a protection, but nevertheless it is thriving well and will SEL" «°3 m^ «? ° Cl£ - \&" B « W .. th f WO .?V W addock » fc Lichfield, where this Fescue is almoat the only grass left, And it is evidently thriving. At Woodstock, Mr Rich's own place, I went over about 112 acres recently eown with about 161b ChewhWa Fescne and a little clover It is a first-class " take "all over, and there wilLbe a thick eward vtry soon. Another paddock has been sown with turnips and fescue and shows a very good braird. Mr Rich is just about sowing 30001b T ChewiiWs Fescue on dl£ l n»°t C^t« t& 8 WyETU™ *•*,*s'?s! 1^ a lar « e qH!* ntity £*3?g?tw» >Dunu B cula some years ago, and sowed it on the Thames Valley Company's land. It came away very well, 'but grew a different plant f torn Chew ingsTFescuJ and mowover" t fi,l Hi Pa* ?***?*■ . ?£ J^W* 8 tf ed , e TOrygrass he can think of includit.g the bard fe B cue. .and t.one have stood in the land Wherever he has sown Chewings's Fescue it has not only held it own, but has gradually spread over the lanTwhen the other g, asses died out, of which I iad ocular demonstration m the ome.of the paddock sown five years ago, with a splendid mixture of grasses, including only 21b Chewings's Fe,oue, and in which paddock the Fescue has 1 now SicK full poSioS lam quitesatisfied this Fescue is exactlywhat is wauted for the enormous tracts of poor land in the Waikato, Tauj 0, and other districts. - »« «*» V u>\.\,u.»uy mv iJuuaesttion,, „ S©X_-_E£ ' AGrKMTS 'FOE a 2T_rQW*^ _B!O2E3:O^.