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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 54, 9 February 1916, Page 6

'l'be Dunedin correspondent of the Christchurch Star states that there will be no Senior Rugby football in Dunedin this year, and it is extremely doubtful if there will he any Junior Flag contests. The Olaa Sugar Company is putting into extensive use a new method of destroying weeds in caneflelds, says the Honolulu State Bulletin. An arsenical spray is applied by means ot aspecially constructed sledge carrying a tank fitted with nozzles, through which the liquid is expelled under air pressure downward and directly upon the weeds between the cane rows. One man with a mule operates the contrivance. The solution is composed of a mixture ol arsenite of soda and causticsoda, there being about 51 h or arsenic to 100 gallons of the solution. By tins means the cost of weed destruction at Olaa lias been reduced by 25 per cent., the cost of spraying for one application being about Is. Ibe great saving found in the use of this spray is in the control it gives of the weed growth between the cane rows, which facilitates the growth of the cane. Various tests made show that no harmful results accrue from the application of arsenic to the soil. demonstrated that if all the arsenic that would be used in sixty years of such application were given in one dose, no harmful results to the soil would follow. It has been shown also that no retardation in the growth of the cane is occasioned, but the spray must not be allowed to come in contact with the cane leaves.