A Correspondent makes the following suggestion for the eradication of that noxious and rapidly-spreading weed, the sorrel:—-“If peas are sown thickly on the sorrel land and allowed to mat well together, they will completely choke the sorrel; and, when the peas are gathered off, there will not be a particle of sorrel remaining. Whereas, if sown with clover, . the land could be used for little less than
pasture land, as it is found to be difficult to extinguish clover onto planted on the land.”
A new speeies of a vegetable devouring pest has lately been observed in Napier for the first time. It is a very small black-red insect, like a beetle, and it can be seen on the hills in swarms; through whatever paddock or garden these insects travel they leave nothing green behind them. From the country also, we learn that grasshoppers are in myriads. —Napier Telegraph.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 231, 16 December 1874, Page 2
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