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grass on the Tweed that have been in existence for the past io or'* 
12 years. It has been known fo $eld,,ati tfj£* Wollongbar Experi- 
mental Farm, on cultivated ground, when- four .mflnths old, 22 tons 
of green fodder, and several successive % cil tangs ’of over 13 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 ioo -pigs -Cpulcl be kept in good 
condition on a few acres, with the addition of scme # sktm milk* or 
other feed. All persons who . have used* it for this purpose speak 
very highly of it. 
This is what Mr. C. F. JULIUS' Secretary Dairymen’s ynion, 
Bucca Creek, says 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. Being' 
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 of its 
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 beef! 
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 clairn to such a position.” 
Mr. H. Munsey, of Dundas (N.S.W.) says: — ‘ Paspalum is the 
grass that has revolutionised the dairying industry on the North 
Coast. Scores of instances can be quoted showing that the capacity 
of farms has been doubled and trebled and' it forms a dense mass 
of succulent forage. Having spent over a month going through 
farms where this grass has been sown, I can safely recommend its 
planting on a large scale. I have seen farms where 100 head of 
dairy cattle have been kept all ’the year round on less than 100 
acres of land, giving splendid returns in milk and butter. This 
grass if enclosed for a short period during Autumn will provide^, 
good supply of feed for the Winter. Its value to the State cannot 
be expressed in thousands of pounds.” 
Mr. Brandon, the well-known Manager of the North Coast 
Co-operative Butter Factory, says of paspalum: “1 do not know 
what this district would have ‘done without it, especially during 
the very dry weather we experienced some time back. With 
regard to the quality of the butter manufactured from it, it is all 
that could be desired.” 
This factory, which was established about ten years ago, and is 
owned and controlled by our farmers, for the month of October 
last, paid away to its suppliers for cream and pork the immense 
sum of £45,000, or at the rate of more than half-a-millidn sterling 
