FARMING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 120, 19 April 1940, Page 10

FARMING NEWS.

RURAL RAKINCS. Eradication of Ragwort. The annual report of the Mnnnwatu Rabbit Board states that in the administration of (lie Noxious Weeds Act the board lias continued to assist the Department cf Agriculture. As a whole there lias been no increase in ragwort in Ihc board’s district. and ai’cas previously infested arc now clear. Fewer British Poultry. It is estimated that tho poultry population of England ami Wales lias boon reduced by nearly 21,000,000 head since the outbreak of war, chiefly owing to the shortage of feeding stuffs, says the agricultural correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The pre-war poultry population was estimated at 69,000.000 head. Recovery of Pasture. A Marlborough correspondent, who has visited parts of tho Molesworth Station, abandoned a few years ago and retained by the Government, writes concerning ths striking recovery of feed conditions on the run as a result of the few years spelling from stock grazing. The correspondent states that stockmen inform hint that there is grass “up to tho stirrup irons” when they ride over the country. Cocksfoot, danthonia, and clover, on suitable parts, arc flourishing. One notable feature is the good showing of blue grass, which used to be prolific when the run carried up to 45,093 sheep some decades ago.