FARM AND DAIRY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 91, 13 May 1909, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY

Hatches of farmers in Otago mo now) lieing ri'fEUlarly hrought More the j Court liy inspectors under tlie Noxious Weeds Act for failing to out Californian tliistlis on their land .More the plants I have seeded. Several farmers from the! Peninsula in cases heard at the City Police Court in Dune-din cm Wednesday (nays the Otago Daily Times) held strongly, as other fanners have done, that cutting in Dceemhev and .January, as provided hy the Act, promotes a stronger growth m' the ]ilai)ts. which flower and s'eed later on. whereas if the thistles wer c [, ut in l-'chniary and in the early part of.March in many districts more practical good would lie aecom-i pliahed. Stress was laid on the point j in one case that there was a difference! of a month Iwhvecu the llmveriiis of tire thistle at Tomahawk and at JliglielirT. Varnnrs hlko complained that during I rJcccnrher and .Tanuarv of last year, j while in the middle of the hay and lur-, nip-thinning season, they could not ohtain farm lahor for the cutting. One witness stated that the lahov dillicuHy was so great at the time Siii.cd that ho conld not at-t a'mini for ihe work even if heoffereil O per day for his services.