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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1641, 14 May 1925, Page 7

At the Werribee Research Farm, Victoria, excellent results have been obtained from sowing a mixture of grass and clover seeds in place of lucerne upon irrigable land. The resultant pasture withstands grazing of fodder all the year round, and in addition to being more economically managed proves more profitable for dairy cows. In the moist conditions prevailing in the dairying districts, in New Zealand, especially in the deep, rich soils, the mixture used at Werribee should give satisfactory results: —English rye grass, 121 b; prairie grass 31b; cocksfoot 31b; lucerne 31b; Alsike clover, red clover, white clover, strawberry ■clover, and subterranean clover lib each. These plants provide an excellent ration, well balanced for milk production They will provide both winter and summer feed, and should it be possible'to reserve portions of good growth for cutting in spring an excellent, nutritious hay could be obtained Such a mixture should prove preferable to Paspalum dilatatum in various parts of the Dominion