Correspondenee

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42753, 27 July 1905, Page 3

Correspondenee

We do not ho’d ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our corespondents. [To the Editor.] Sir, —Will y..u kindly allow me through the medium of your paper to point out the great increase of noxious weeds in this district. If you only drive along the roads you spe bunches ofgorseand black berries, and every year they arp getting larger and larger and if you only walked over some farms you would see enough thistles to seed duw u the whole of the township. There is a giwat deal of truth in the old saying : one year’s seeding, seven years’ weeding. It is to be hoped that as spiiug advances the Inspector will take energetic measures to cumbat. the • i "S growing evil. Farmers do not like to find fault with their neighbours, but people must protect themselves. For often when a farmer thinks his farm is free fiom black berries, on going to a clump of ti-tree that has been left for shelter he is disgusted to find a lot of black berry plants growing from the seed brought by the birds whtn they come to roost, and if a plant is once sfai'ted it Is a great trouble to get rid of. If you dig it up, and only leave one small bit of the root in the ground that small bit Will grow, and before summer is over form a plant, throws out runners, and at the end of every runner a new plant will form.—l am. —etc. Manu Forte.