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at Mr. McDougars, Minyip, after being grazed till August, was clo&ed 

 up and left for seed. An average yield of 15 bushels to the acre of clean 

 dressed seed was obtained, tlie grass being mowed, stacked, and threshed. 



Last year (14-incli rainfall) a jniddock of ISO acres, comprising red and 

 black soils, and which had been continuously down in rye-grass for years 

 without being disturbed, was strip])ed with a modified stripper, and after 

 threshing, a yield of about 12 bushels to the acre of clean dressed seed 

 was obtained, worth this year 6s. 6d. per bushel of 20 lbs. 



Some of this seed has been traced to the southern districts, where.it 

 has done well. Last year Mr. 1 1. Gordon, of Spring Hill, Willaura, 

 sowed 3 bushels on a piece of fallow, and reaped 66 bushels from it, 

 i.e., 22 bushels to the acre. Mr. Gordon's comments were as follows: — 

 " It did remarkably well, though not sown till June. It did not make 

 much growth till spring — grew long enough to cut with a binder." Mr. 



Threshing out the Seed after Stripping a Paddock of 180 acres of 



" Wimmera " Rye-grass at Minyip last year. 



Yield, 12 bushels to the acre of cleaned dressed seed. 



F. S. Armstrong, of " Larmo," Broadwater, who recently bought a large 

 quantity of seed as a result of one year's experience, states, " Its feeding 

 value is very great. It is far superior to other rye grass or native grass 

 in this locality." However, its capacity to re-establish itself in these 

 districts has yet to be demonstrated. The accompanying photos.- show 

 the stacks of grass straw from the 1917 operations, and the threshing of 

 the stripped rye grass from last season at Messrs. McDougal Bros., 

 Minyip. 



Stock-carrying Capacity. 



Well-corroborated statements of numerous farmers set down the 

 carrying capacity as double that of the natural pastures. 



At Minyip and Warracknaboal it was repeatedly stated that 1^ sheep 

 to the acre can be " lambed down " on the grass. Further north, on the 



