SPECIFIC FOR NOXIOUS WEEDS.
MERITS OF SODIUM CHLORATE CONSIDERED. Some notice was given by the Manawatu executive of the Farmers Union, on Saturday at Levin, to the recommendations of 'the Noxious Weeds Conference, concerning methods for the control of weeds by spraying. The conference considered that the present Act need not he interfered with, but it felt strongly that every facility should be given to the Department to give effect to the recently discovered methods for- weed control and that the Government should increase the gr-ant to the Department for carrying- out further investigations and demonstrations throughout New Zealand of the methods recommended.
The secretary (Mr. Budden) stated tliait officers of the Department from Palmerston North had been to Taranaki and Hawke’s Bay with the new spray (sodium chlorate), and apparently it was quite a. success. It only remained for it to be put on the market or for the farmers to get in touch with the Department and secure the specific. Mr. Gower stated that at the Palmerston Show the had an interesting exhibit of plants that had been sprayed at intervals, lie had had a long tallk: with Mr. McCulloch, who was in charge of the. exhibit, and learned that the officers were quite hopeful that they had the ragwort beaten. In the case of blackberry and Californian thistle, tlie new spray killed what was above the ground,- but not 'the roots. However, the officers hoped that, they would be able to kill Ike roots with a second or third spray-
i‘i'gThe. chairman (Mr. Lynch) said l hat in Wellington-he had talked on the subject with Mr. Cockayne (Director of the Fields Division) and suggested that, if the new spray would 101 l ragwort and blackberry, it would also kill utuwai (bidi-bidi). . Mr. Gloyii: It will kill pennyroyal. 'Mr.' Gower remarked that the preparation was not dangerous to stock, and it only slightly affected grass.
The chairman stated that the sodium chlorate could be landed in New Zealand at sid per lb.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4476, 10 July 1930, Page 3
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334SPECIFIC FOR NOXIOUS WEEDS. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4476, 10 July 1930, Page 3
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