Herbage Seed Production To a recent note on ley-farming I
must now add a word on Sir George Stapledon's Herbage Seed Production (Welsh Plant- Breeding Station, is.), which is complementary to the same authority's bulletin on ley-farming. Grass, to most of us, is just grass. But as students of Sir George Stapledon's theories will have gathered, grass is a crop, capable of an infinite variation of strains suitable for differ- ing soils and situations. In regrassing and the development of good leys—" particularly of high-grade, relatively long-duration grazing- leys "—the supply of sufficient quantities of proper grass-seed is of great urgency. A large-scale home-production of varieties such as Italian ryegrass and " Danish " cocksfoot is important if correct three-year planning is to be carried out. In this booklet the whole technique of grass- and clover-seed production and harvesting is expertly handled.
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