COCKSFOOT SEED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 32, 9 February 1901, Page 2

COCKSFOOT SEED.

Notwithstanding t.he unfavourable scat on we learn that s csnsidarable quantity of cocksfoot seed has bean saved and considerable interest is bang taken in the matter of price. Cocksfoot is so much a staple industry iu Taranaki that everything concerning it is of interest ti settlors and there is no doubt bat that Taranaki farmers will always contrive to have tbeir patch of cocksfoot in connection with thrdairy industry, because tbe work of saving it is work that fits in very well bMtwGvii the hours of milking. Tho !j<ivernsieut have lately been interesting themselves in the matter and fron. the Aee; Zealand Times we learn that, the New Zealand Produce Commissioner in London (Mr. H. C. Cameron) having been instructed to include cocksfoot in his woskly quo'ations in future, has decided that thi quotations cabled shall be the average price ruling for bright, clean seed weighing 171b to the bushel. He reports that the market for cocksfoot seed throughout the past year has been

.lull prices receding steadily from 42# 'int'l they melted 325. Lately they have been rer-.verinjr, and now 34s ta ■'(So is obtainable fir nice bright seed, •veighing, say, on an average 17|lh. Busirew is not at all brisk, and there are considerable Blocks in st"ore to be disposed of. The demand for this seed I has been decreasing in England, t-,ht chief purchases made beiii" for the Continent and Scotland. When prices rife, America .send?'- o wsiderab'e quan cities of cocksfoot into England. American seed is generally clean and of superior quality. Mr. Clamoron thinks it is no': known in New Zealand that the cocksfoot seed harvested hate in one occasion is seldom sold in England till the following year. It arrives therein June or July, when merchants! are not desirous of pHichasing, I'here fore, owing to ths> necessity of holding the teed so long, he doubts if the quotations of prices ruling one season will bo of very great assistance to growsrs in determining prices to be paid for seed in a coming harvest.