DISCOVERY OF NEW GRASS
WIDE AREAS WILL BE OPEN FOR SETTLEMENT IMPORTANT FOR PARTS OF SOUTH AMERICA WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Mr. Thomas Henry, science editor of the North American Newspaper Alliance, reports that thousands of square miles of northern South America and Central America will be opened to colonisation through an English doctor’s discovery of a strange grass in the Caracas (Venezuela) which drives away mosquitoes, ticks and snakes. Dr. Edward Morgan has already produced seeds in large quantities and supplies the Venezuela Government. The Pan-American Sanitary Bureau states that an analysis shows that the grass, which is a species of melinis multiflora, is the richest pasture for horses, cows, and mules, but is probably unsuitable for sheep.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 43, 20 February 1941, Page 7
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118DISCOVERY OF NEW GRASS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 43, 20 February 1941, Page 7
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