Fig. 5.-One method of utilising the waste land between the rows of newly transplanted pampas grass, which is part of the same plantation shown in Fig. 2. Two rows of early potatoes have been planted between the rows of pampas grass. The cultivation given to the potatoes was naturally most helpful to, the pampas grass. Fig. 6.— same plantation as Fig. 5 taken two months later. Note how well the pampas grass is establishing, and also how free from weeds is the plantation as the result of thorough inter-row cultivation. The potato crop pays most of the expenses incidental to the establishment of the pampas plantation. Fig. 7.—The growth of pampas grass a few months after the potato crop had been harvested and just 12 months following transplanting. Grazing for the first time took place nearly three months after this photograph was taken in April, 1940. Fig. B.What was left of the pampas grass shown in Fig. 7 after it had been fed off for the first time last winter. Rapid recovery was made, and the present height of the herbage is in the vicinity of 5 feet.

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Fig. 5.- One method of utilising the waste land between the rows of newly transplanted pampas grass, which is part of the same plantation shown in Fig. 2. Two rows of early potatoes have been planted between the rows of pampas grass. The cultivation given to the potatoes was naturally most helpful to, the pampas grass. Fig. 6. — same plantation as Fig. 5 taken two months later. Note how well the pampas grass is establishing, and also how free from weeds is the plantation as the result of thorough inter-row cultivation. The potato crop pays most of the expenses incidental to the establishment of the pampas plantation. Fig. 7.— The growth of pampas grass a few months after the potato crop had been harvested and just 12 months following transplanting. Grazing for the first time took place nearly three months after this photograph was taken in April, 1940. Fig. B. What was left of the pampas grass shown in Fig. 7 after it had been fed off for the first time last winter. Rapid recovery was made, and the present height of the herbage is in the vicinity of 5 feet.