WAR ON BRACKEN
SCOTTISH SCIENTIST’S HOPES. A Scottish scientist, waging war on Bracken, has enlisted insects as his allies and has sprayed the plant pest from aeroplanes. In Dondon this week, describing his campaign, Professor K. W. Braid, of Glasgow, said that up to now the insect allies he has chosen are not ruthless enough. He wants to find an insect that is all bracken-minded and will eat bracken to the exclusion of every other plant. Professor Braid believes that if he can defeat bracken he can add £10,000,000 worth of farm land to the countryside. He said: “Bracken has robbed the nation of countless acres of its best land, even since the beginning of this century. In Scotland there are more than 2,000,000 acres of bracken. In the north of England vast areas of once-beautiful common land have been swallowed up. , “The best check is continually to cut the bracken by hand or by machine and thus impoverish the roots.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 9
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161WAR ON BRACKEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 9
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