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Otago Witness, Issue 2202, 14 May 1896, Page 7

' We have the foBlow&ug Vaa*fiesße§ in Stbek t . . (Extract from letttr reteivtA by TOTHILL, WATSON <fc Co.) W-BK&.JC* WV UH «3> J£T JCa33>%^ 5J JELa, ; Auckland Y aw 7est u n A irn a•, IBM "MT?-n h p Vfc 'Ifrf , from ? T teit H Waikato diß *« C -*' w "?fc * ™ ite <* on Purpose to see how Cliewings's Fescue is doing there. I saw one paddock. From memory I dar. M y there were about 100 acres mOt ha^d beVn la?d 'down flvVvean aeo b« Mr P. D. Rich with a first-olass mixture of grasses, »ol«hi» •Tib Poverty B^v £y grass, 71b C6ck B foot, some Crested Dogsteft, Timothy, Clover, etc., aud only 2lb Chewing** Fescue. This paddock bad been well done to, ploughed l sevwal tlmef a cron o? turnips put 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 paddoclc. and h looking very well. I also saw the lawn'n front™ tne Vhamea 6 ?'v cy nn * CTC T iXISRi'^S? 9 !.?* Li(Me L d< Ohewiogs's Fescue was sown on it five years ago, together with some Poverty Bay ryegrass teed. The lawn ia now a close, thick mat of Fescue, with only a plant of Yorkshire fog showing hexe and there. iS'n attES r°} ™ J£«srs jS W J£ Up t I 8h °^ a 10^T JP ad< & ck , of l e f? ?l°\} an % wh !^ "T 8OW ? quite recently with Wlb Chewinga's Fescue alone. It would have been better if sown with some clovef as a protection, but nevertheless ifc fa Tthrivin* well and will W« n.,^Jns a rJ? «1 T^ 0 "fl"? i" W °«^ v ,? a ,4 dock at Richfield, where this Fescues almost the only grass left, and it is evidently thriving. At Woodstock. Mr Rich's own place, I went over about 112 acres recently sown with about 151b OhewineVs ? ZSaZX Zl-Vh C }?l e l ~7 2lf ?* fir xV dd vv B *v * ake 3 °T T ' and th ?^ w ?U be * a thl # B . ward , ver y B °°n. Afother paddock has been sown with turnips and fescue and shows a very |ood braird. Mr Rich is just about sowing 3000 b OhraWs Fesa «on « paddock he has prepared fot it. Mr Rich imported a large quantity of Festuca Duriuscula some years ago, and sowed it on the Thames Valley Company's land. It came awayvevy well, but giew a different plant from Chewingu's Feßt-ue and moreover h died out hk« the other grasses. Mr Inch has tried every grass he. can think of including the hard fescue, and none have stood in the land. Wherever he has sown Chewh.gs's Fescue it has not only held it own, but has gVadual if spread^ove? the^and^wh en the other grasses died out, of. which L had ocular demonstration in the case of the paddock sown five years ago, with a splendid mixture of grasses, including only 21b Che wings's Fescue, and in which paddock the Fescue has now practically full possession! I aiu quitfrßatisfied this Fescue is exactly what ib wanted for the enormous tractfs of poor land in the Waikato, Taupo. and other districts. iu«u.m.»iijr iuu possession.