Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4498, 2 December 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

Noiions Weeds t C 'ii ; . A REMEDY. RMER9 are ‘contiaually troubled er the. era'dicalioa of noxious and ... the . expense to the izmry is something enormous. It csnUy fiost.aruQhql.der in.Taihape tOO to~ have the Californian thistle I down. Mr A. 11. Hanson, Manaia, has en with a. liquid lution ford he. past eight years, and jw. claims to kill any weed with it. r I£. Gorringe, of Manaia, recently 2ated some blackberry with the lution, and reports that they are >w deadi, Mr R Clague, Manaia, ied the solution oh ragwort, and has been completely eaten away. ie Inspector of Noxious Weeds epartment of Agriculture) writes Mr Hansen that he inspected the rious patches of weeds (including rse,ragwort, blackberry and lifornian thistle) treated by the ution- He made a careful examition of the plants individually, d from his observations he conidea that the solution can be used Ih good effect, particularly in the ;e of ragwort. This weed apared to be completely destroyed .er one application, but in the ;e of gorse, Californian thistle and ickberry, the results did not pear to have been so satisfactory: e plants above the ground, and • a - couple of inches under the rface were dead, but below that i roots appeared to have retained sir full vitality, and were already sparing to send up fresh shoots, rtainly, they had a great che.k, 1 ifdrealed at the propor time, r this season of the year, they uld give very little, if any, ther trouble for the season, but effectual er idication three or four jlications would be necessary, ilr Hansen estimates that the ling of a thistle or ragwort plant a farthing. Wherever a weed has m destroyed other seed can be got grow.—Opunake Times.