WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Waipa Post, Volume V, Issue 216, 30 May 1913, Page 4

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

A SANDON RYE INCIDENT,

An interesting story regarding the bearing of a name on the sale of grass-seed is told by the Rangitikei Advocate. For some years Messrs Barraud and Abraham have been supplying large quantities of seed to a client who has a large property a long way from Sandon. They were never able, however, to persuade him to use Sandon rye grass-seed, and feeling sure that if he once saw the Sandon country and realised how perfectly suitable that land is for rye grass his objections to using the seed would be overcome, they persuaded him to come to Palmerston, and took him out to see some of the farms whence they regularly get a supply. Time did not permit of them taking him to all the man}' growers whose seed they handle, but the few they visited were quite enough—their client was delighted with the country —they booked his order, and he said, “In the future 1 shall always sow ‘ Sandon’-grown rye. This trip has been an eye-opener to me; I had an idea ‘ Sandon ’ rye grass came off ‘sandy ’ country.”