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grass on the Tweed that have been in existence for the past 10 or 

 12 years. It has been known to yield, at the Wollongbar Experi- 

 mental Farm, on cultivated ground, when four months old, 22 tons 

 of green fodder, and several successive cuttings of over 1 3 tons 

 each per acre, within the year. On fairly rich "soil, where there is 

 a good rainfall, this grass' should easily sustain one bullock or 10 

 sheep per acre, and from 50 to 100 pigs could be kept in good 

 condition on a few acres, with the addition of some skim milk or 

 other feed. All persons who have used it for this purpose speak 

 wry highly of it. 



This is what Mr. C. F. JULIUS, Secretary Dairymen's Union, 

 Bucca Creek, savs in the (Government "Agricultural Gazette,") 

 N.S.W.:— "This remarkable plant is quickly coming to the fore- 

 front as a grass peculiarly adapted to our uncertain climate. Bring 

 a deep-rooter, its properties as a drought resister alone proclaim it 

 invaluable; and while throughout the warmer seasons of the year 

 it surpasses all other grasses in the rapidity and abundance ol us 

 growth, the severest 'of our frosts, although, retarding its growth, 

 fails to subdue its evergreen state It is most efficacious in sub- 

 duing and preventing the growth of all noxious weeds. By the 

 assistance of paspalum dilatatum many lands hitherto deemed 

 worthless in their rocky, hilly or swampy situation have been 

 triumphantly reclaimed." 



The (Agricultural Government Gazette) says:— "Throughout the 

 length and breadth of the Northern Dairy Districts, paspalum grass 

 is regarded as the king of pasture grasses, and at present it has, no 

 doubt, every claim to such a position/' 



Mr. H.'Munsey, of Dundas (N.S.W.) savs:— " Paspalum is the 

 ^s that has revolutionised the dairying industry on the North 

 <~?ast. Scores of instances can be quoted showing that the capacity 

 ot tarms has been doubled and trebled and it forms a dense mass 

 f feculent forage. Having spent over a month going through 

 farms where this grass has been sown, I can safelv recommend its 

 plant.ng on a large scale. I have seen farms where 100 head of 

 air y cattle have been kept all the year round on less than 100 



acres f land, 

 grass 



splendid return 



, the State cannot 

 ^ expressed in thousands of pounds." 



Mr. Brandon, the well-known Manager of the North Coast 

 ^Perative Butter Factory, says of paspalum: -- " I do not know 

 Wha * this district would have done without it, especially during 

 "W very dry weather we experienced some time back. With 

 Scould b he d qUali d ° f bUtter manufaCtUreH fr ° m iUSa11 

 This factory, which was established about t 



and controlled by our farmers, for the month c 

 : aid away to its suppliers lor cream and pork th. 

 M5.0O0, or at the rate of more than half-a-millic 



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