SILVER BEET SEED.
Up to the present time the department lias been in the same position as the private grower in regard to the difficulty of securing seed of the desired varieties of silver beet for stock-feeding purposes. This year the work of selecting seed lias been instituted at the experimental farms, and it is hoped that next autumn small samples of seed of the approved varieties will be available for distribution. It is expected that several of the leading seed firms in the Dominion will have seed of the varieties recommended by the department, on the market nex; year One of the leading European seed firms, Messrs Villmorin and Co., of Paris, as a result of a personal investigation by the firm’s principal mem her of the demonstration in New Zealand in regard to silver-beet as a forage crop for stock, has decided to cultivate for seed the types of silver-beet recognised by the department as the most valuable for stockfeeding. No doubt the French seed will be on the New Zealand market in due course. The seed of the varieties used in southern cooperative field experimental work was
obtained from Messrs .Montgomery and Co., seed merchants, Christchurch.—Journal of Agriculture.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 20
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