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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 245, 22 February 1911, Page 4

CURRENT TOPICS THE I'AU.MER'S ISL'RDKN". Tt is flieprin<r to know that the blackberry lias nn enemy more powerful to injure it than man, and that a disease has attacked both blackberry and some of its relatives in portion? of 111- distrk't. It is unusual, however, for a pest nlfackimr anv k : »t*! of vcgotnlto lit;! to absolutely annihilate it, and it is 100 j soon to believe that the "black curse" ! cannot recover from blight as easily as I it recovers from spade, mattock, i'p'e or plough, and the fact (hat scatter".! -pceimens of the curse are looking si •l< hj• >lll t lint deter -settlers from fighting it. The ollieial methods of dealing with noxious weeds of any kind are more or less futile. An inspector who has in «a large .range m rinn,''v is s>.l ill■ '1 ini ' abb' to obtain eradication of pesls on every portion of it. If he hp'igs a ea-e : against a -d:i;ggling !:a is i:.ißurally disliked, and it is immodiaii ly .••skoi!