LESS RAGWORT SHOWING
POSITION IN WAIKATO
VALUE OF SHEEP GRAZING
The inspection of properties for the presence of ragwort has been commenced by the overseer of the Waikato County Council, Mr, G. G. Winter. but the county has been found to be particularly clean. Reporting to a meeting of the council. Mr. Winter said the unusually cold season, along with efficient stoking, had kept the growth well in check and -only, in a very few paddocks, reserved for dairy stock, couid the presence of ragwort be observed. The benefit of .sheep grazing iev keeping the growth of ragwort in check had been most apparent again.
Inclement weather and the retarded growth have prevented the commencement this season of operations in the country for the eradication of the weed-
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20056, 30 September 1939, Page 11
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128LESS RAGWORT SHOWING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20056, 30 September 1939, Page 11
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