SEED THRESHING
VALUE OF “BLOWINGS’' The question of threshing-mill wasto is betng investigated by the seed-test-ing section of the Plant Research Stul,o". Palmerston North. Several samples of blowings” from threshingmills have been received by the station lately, with inquiries as to the value of the material. The type and quality or the samples naturally varies considerably, but the conclusion is that there must be a fair percentage of good ryegrass left in the mill dumps. Ono good example is shown in the following sample, described as “blowings” from a oae-year stand, to be had “merely for the bagging”:—Pure seed (smallseeded perennial ryegrass), 65.1 per cent.; other crop seeds (six species), 0.9 per cent.; weed seeds (five species, mainly goose-grass), 10.2 per cent.; inert, matter, 23.8 per cent.; total, 100 per cent. Germination (of tho pure seed), 97.0 per cent. Pure germinated seed. 68.0 per cent. Without taking into account the detrimental value of 10 per cent, of goosegraas, etc., the sample is worth, as ryegrass, approximately C per bushel on ruling values.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 138, 13 June 1931, Page 20 (Supplement)
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172SEED THRESHING Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 138, 13 June 1931, Page 20 (Supplement)
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