CONTROL OF RUSHES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 310, 16 December 1936, Page 6

CONTROL OF RUSHES

Mowing a Great Success

flit- ••■'Htrol of rushes by mowing is-•fetit-l lo in the latest issue of the initial of Agriculture,- in which Ail •; C. Holmes, Te Hopai, Featherston v rites: “I farm on the wet lands bordering .ake Wsiirarapa. Spine seven years ag< ■ hi-jran to mow my rushes, which ovei nail) acres were so dense and high that i horse could hardly go through them et alone sheep. .i... H !P rushes are reduced tc ■ " tv chimps, hollow in the . None of the land has propel Irn'i.Hge, nor can it be got. This laud tow carries three to four ewes to the icre. I mow some (500 acres to 800 acres i year. “Several paddoeks now have to be newu only every second year, and, ’ignin, in some places the rush has disippeared. 1 like to mew when the seed s fully developed; the young second growth that comes in the autumn the •attle will nip off in the winter, and -o one gets 'a second cut free of cost. “If possible, I topdress after cutling; topdressing encourages the stock io eat the rush, but obstinate cases J ■ut in December and again in March 1 ain careful to leave shelter belts tor use in lambing. I have had heavy losses with spring lambs through completely ‘cleaning up' the paddoeks. In my particular case rush-mowing has been a great success, and is part of the i'aim routine work.” 1 -