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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16828, 15 December 1928, Page 11

The changeable sens.in in Canterbury is likely to affect the. weight of the small seeds crop this season. Stock owners who generally are in a position to close ii]) a paddock or two for seed were forced during the dry September and early October to torn their sheep on (says a Christchurch paper). Orowth has jumped ahead this last month, but it is doubtful if it has been far enough ahead 1o permit the reservation of paddocks to the usual extent. There is every prospect of the ryegrass crop being lighter on this account. Clovers are in <&'ory much the same position. A wet spring is necessary for a good white clover crop. This was not secured, and the la Per rains will not be helpful to much extent. Stocks of perennial ryegrass and white clover in merchants’ hands arc smaller than usual, and good wei'-lu machine-dressed perennial is worth close on (is. n bushel, while white clover is worth up to 12d per ’P. for fanners’ dressed. A good deal of last season’s cowgrass crop was of inferior quality, and met with a poor market.