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Shannon News, 19 August 1927, Page 4

At least one farmer in the district is making good use of fern-infested country, and at the same time eradicating the menace (says the King Country Chronicle). On one farm on Trooper's Road a herd of 200 pigs is being carried, and the fern (in addition to turnips intermixed) is being eaten out by the pigs, which are being raised for the market. The pigs are in excellent condition, and the experiment is proving a successful one for the farmer in question —so successful, indeed, that if the pigs realise what they promise to do on the market many other farmers in the district may become interested in swine raising as a profitable industry and as a means of fern eradication. Some wiseacre will then doubtless come along in future years, when the industry has possible become a flourishing one, and say: "If only we had more fern."