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distributed rainfall, then I should certainly not recommend anyone to sow this 
grass, as you can get many better grasses for stock feeding. But im poor 
coast country, or on the Dawson, where the soil is good, but the rainfall 
uncertain, making the country subject to droughts, I would strongly recom- 
mend it, as it stands drought well, and every little passing shower causes it to 
spring from 1 foot to 18 inches in a very short time. All the stock here 
are very fond of it. 
JADOO FIBRE. 
Our correspondent also makes inquiries concerning the quantities of the 
various fertilisers used in preparing the peat for use as Jadoo. We cannot 
yet supply the proportions of the various ingredients, but, as the proprietor of 
the patent has promised to give the quantities if asked for them, we will try 
and give the information in our next number. The Peat-moss used is the 
fibrous soil of certain swamps, but all peats are not suitable. As a large 
quantity of the material is now used in Australasia, it has, we learn, become 
desirable, in order to reduce the cost, to try and find a suitable vehicle for the 
fertilisers in an indigenous peat, but no suitable substance has yet been found. 
Mr. Scott has tried swamp soil with much success by preparing it as 
follows :—First put down a layer of the swamp peat; cover this with a layer 
of lime, another of rotten kauri pine; over this fill in stockyard manure; make 
some six layers in all, and allow them to thoroughly rot. Fruit trees mulched. 
. with this mixture show very good results. 
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