June 2, 1908.] Agricultural Gazette of N.S. W. 437 



conservtd by judicious attention on the part ot the grazier to the cultivatiou 

 of more than outs grass. 



Turning to the native grasses, I have never in my Hfe seen them in more 

 vigorous growth, and ail of them in healthy seed. Many of the species are 

 gregarious — that is to say, it is jiossible to take patches of many acres in which 

 it would be difficult to find the dominant grass intermixed with even one 

 stragt^ler of any other. 



Admitted that this is an exceptional and remarkable season, the thought 

 comes into one's mind, and remains there, that if graziers have a mind to 

 cultivate native grasses, the supply of abundance of good .seed need not stand 



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Natal Red Top {T yicholcf na rosea). 

 The trees are small Moreton Bay Figs. 



in the way. And while it is wisdom to test and acclimatise the best that; 

 other countries have to offer us, the truest wisdom wid be to utilise, wherever 

 possible, the already-proved, already-acclimatised, best native grasses of this 

 richly-endowed land. All native grasses are of course not valuable to the 

 pastoralist, but none are useless, although their utilit}' may not always be 

 clear to us. 8ome of them are but clothing the land, or occupying special 

 situations, fallowing it, if nothing else ; and while performing a function not 

 always obvious, that function is always valuable in the giand economy of 

 nature, although we may not be able to trarsmute the particular grass, under 

 present conditions, into sheep or cattle. 



