Film shows how to produce seeds from grassland, broad red clover, white clover, perennial ryegrass and cocksfoot. Ploughing grassland for crops, new lays sewn for grassland. Pasture mix shown in close up. Seeds of Broad Red Clover, White Clover, Ryegrass Perennial, cocksfoot. Aberystwyth plant breeding of cocksfoot shown. Pollination method shown and sewed until there are enough for production. Varieties of broad red clover outlined. Then planting of it. Working seed bed down to a fine tilth, sewn under a corn crop. Seed sewn by hand, seed fiddle or seed/shandy barrow. Also seed drill pulled by a tractor, harrow pulled by horse. Following year early cut of hay, 2nd cut runs to seed. Man shows crop is ready by crushing a clover head and seeds come out. Cuts crop using a combine or side delivery reaper pulled by a horse. Stacked and left in field. Threshed using a clover huller. Seeds shown. Late flowering red clover, varieties outlined. Later flowering, no hay crop, cattle grazing and same method as broad red clover. White clover varieties outlined. Grazed and hives of bees, head of clover ready shown. Cut with a mower pulled by horses. Raked off in heaps, collected by hand. White clover treated as arable crop. Cut silage in May, then harvested. Clover cured on tripods. Loaded by hand. Perennial Ryegrass varieties outlined. Planting described, harvested by binder, stooks. Cut off docks by hand. Threshing in threshing machine. Cocksfoot varieties outlined, drills and broadcast shown. Fields shown. Cultivate by rows. Nitrogenous manuring by horse and cutting it, stooks as ryegrass. Strand Film Ministry of Information Technical direction L E Cook and J L Fyfe
