ALIFORNIAN THISTLE BLIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2367, 25 January 1915, Page 8

ALIFORNIAN THISTLE BLIGHT.

n connection with the peculiar green jht, which ,was discovered td be kill- ■ Californian thistle in the Kaitaita district;--and in isolated parts of ith OtagOji.'it is interesting, to note ■t the blight has evidently" spread. :a- meeting; of the Lake County A. I P. Society mention was made of [matter* fly commences on the 7or of the-thistle and works down ; stem, ;,witb the result that .'..the res wither; and the plant is. apparent•endored quite lifeless. 1 ' One-speaker-tejl that'about five .acres of thistles ' liis 1 property had already succumbed the ravages of the fly, and he was, jeful tliajfall the thistles -on his land lid soon-Tje-eradicated. The Tirnaru erald" reports' 'thatl "the" • blight has 3e its appearance" in;. South VCantery. A Geraldine farmer hiis;picked iunch of dead Californian thistle off ;land. .He had a good deal of the itle scattered'"over .his farm, but has all .'been,-; exterminated, by . the jht, and grass is now growing on patches formerly occupied by the tractive weed. The blight does not ;ely kill the thistle above groun'd, but ietrates right to the roots.' Some the thistle was 4ft. high. i! line of 1900 fat lambs, including i. and second quality and tegs- just ! by: Messrs. Mellsop, Eliott and Co. ents for Messrs. Gilbert'Anderson 1 Co.), on account of a well-known nor in the Jlanawatu, have-realised ; net'.per Lead. ". '' •' • ;* •- - 'e are getting on. Those .of our •friends ; believe weform a '-useful link'iri' the [ chain will find no fault,of. taste in laying '.that wo are getting, on because have proved ourselves as result prop's., Result will tell, and our kiiowe of tho produce business, together l the progressiveness of Wanganui, :cs us capable of handling any quanof home-separated cream, separator :or, and eggs. TVe cannot at present )ly the demand. Bail your produce ho Wanganui Fresh-Food and Ice Co. Ivt. V .'•■ .- ■ iio Richmond Oil Engine is not sold tho sole evidence of an elaborato giltjd Catalogue. It appeals to you by lon of its downright solidity—it 3 slmity of working—ease of control, toicr with tho endorsement of hundreds users throughout the Now Zealand, ite i'or details. PjU'toi), Plumbsr, .ti&Tb6n,T-A<lvt, -■