NOXIOUS WEEDS ON CROWN LANDS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 487, 21 April 1909, Page 5

NOXIOUS WEEDS ON CROWN LANDS.

. • fJo THE EDITOE.) \ . ' Sir, —I have two small patches of Oali- ' thistles on my .sections, which I iiave bcen conscientiously chipping for several years, keeping them within reasonable bounds, 'but being apparently no nearer' to their, eradication then when 1 started. Never have I allowed ono to go to seed. Imagine ymy : .horror, ;then,-. as I crossed tho : railway this..afternoon on; finding;.a, patch-, of Califoriuans ! within/a., feiV .ioet... of ;'.tho. rails, wafting their! downy/seeds, in-response, to ■ every puff/of wind.. - Of what uso are my: Httle elforts-wlieri/the'.Goverh'ment 'is sowing ; tho seed broadcast over; my land i" Sir,'/this is a serious,- a'- vital matter. Each one of :' those.seeds.': , tha,t:'takes.-M hours of'recurrent labour to the settler, and - ten pass within•:» 'few. foot I ,of tho plants .would have prevented, this wholesale and . shameful 'fouling ' ■: Visiting -jUa ;'froiiii t!hreatoning : us with all .sortsvof -pains- and .penalties'* if we do not clear our lands'of noxious ,weeds; and i>'-'eveh ■ are'. sowing the''s«klS ::ljroadcast./for future {crops. / /for- / eradication specifics' with, one: hand, and sowing tho seed w'holpsalo with the other. It is vory amusing/but it's: a grim joke for us.: :. -, The'' Cali forriiari is. the. weed' of;. weeds /te' be dreaded, and if it is ever to be eradicated the Government must at least step sowing tho seed. —L am,'ctc., ... ; • Eahgataua, April 16. ; '-:'/''