LUCERNE AND CLOVER.
IMPORTED SEED. Another is beinj made by the Marlborough Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union to have a regulation brought into force making it compulsory that all lucerne and clover seed imported into the Dominion shall be stained in order to distinguish it from locally-grown seed. A member said that this step was just as essential to the buyer of seed as to the grower. No one could object to the importation of seed, but the growers, who deserved a fair price for their article, should not have to face onesided competition. The buyer of seed should also have protection. If he wanted locally-grown seed, and was prepared to pay for it, no snouid have some guarantee that it was the genuine article, and not imported or adulterated seed. The speaker stated that when two years ago a large amount of lucerne seed came in to New Zealand he did not hear of its having been sold as imported seed—at any rate he had not seen it quoted. The trouble < was that once the seed was in the ‘ country its identity was lost or became ’ blurred.
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Wairarapa Age, 6 May 1924, Page 7
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189LUCERNE AND CLOVER. Wairarapa Age, 6 May 1924, Page 7
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