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grasses, yet from its habit of throwing on the poorest land aiul 

 the fact that it p-rows extra strongly here it may fill a place ..n 

 mountain pastures. 



Poa prateusis: Kentucky blue grass. Poa annua: Annual 

 meadow grass. Are both worthy of being included in upland 

 mixtures. They have done well on these Islands. 



Pcstuca clatior: Tall fescue. I sowed this grass in 1901 and 

 it made a strong growth on the mountain, I obtained the seed 

 as Chewnngs fescue, a Xew Zealand hybrid, and was only un- 

 deceived on my \d^t visit to Xew Zealand w^here I found Chew- 

 ings fescue a much finer aiul shorter grass, and tall fescue not 

 usually a popular grass on account of its ver\- rank growth on wet 

 land and its tendency to develop ergot. 1 have since seen it 

 strongly condemned. 



Agrosfis alba: Red top. This is a fine grass and has done well 

 on the moist country ; I found it very much in evidence in the 

 pastures in Xew Zealand. 



I had little success v ith clovers. Crimson and red clovers 

 .^ ceded but died out. and alsike and trefoil were alike unsuccess- 

 ful. Air. Louis von Tempsky successfully established wdiite 

 clover on ]\Iaui, having sown it with a numlier of others soine 

 20 years ago. I grew some plants of tree lucerne, a bushy shrub 

 growing about 10 or 12 feet high. It seeded but sparingly and 

 eventually tlie trees died. Whether it would be worth planting or 

 not I do not know. 



Timothy was an entire failure in all my trials. 



CI'LTIVATED FEED CROPS. 



Whether it will pay to cultivate land and grow catch crops 

 may be somewliat doubtful, unless under a system of dry culture, 

 by sowing the seed with the last heavy rains and having the crop 

 growing in the dry season. 



I sowed about 10 acres of dwarf Essex rape in Xovember, 1905, 

 having tried a small patch the year before. Though much too 

 thickly sown and attacked by cut-worms and aphides, in seven 

 wrecks it was high enough almost to hide the four months old 

 lambs I had in it. These lambs throve splendidly and never 

 missed their mothers, till by excessive dry weather in January 

 and February tiie rape all wilted up. It sprouted again with the 

 March rains when it was cut and fed to the hogs. Having sown 



