A South Taranaki farmer has successfully used agricultural salt in controlling Californian thistle in some of his pastures, states the New Zealand Journal of Agriculture. The patches were cut in January and treated with 3cwt. to 4cwt. of agricultural salt per acre. Growth of thistle came away normally, but the salted patches attracted the cattle some weeks later, and the patches were grazed bare. Ordinary mixed stocking served to keep the thistle patches will grazed in the autumn and winter. The following summer the thistle-plants were decidedly weaker and had changed to a more leafy and less prickly form readily eaten off by the stock.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1938, Page 3
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