A South Taranaki farmer has successfully used agricultural salt, in controlling Californian thistle in some of his pastures. The patches were cut In January and treated with Hcwt to 4 cwt of agricultural salt per acre. • irowth of thistle came away normally, hut the salted patches attracted the cattle some weeks later, and the patches were grazed bare. Ordinary mixed storking served to keep the thistle patches well 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.—Mr J. E. Davies, Hawera, in the Journal of Agriculture.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20495, 11 May 1938, Page 13
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108Page 13 Advertisements Column 2 Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20495, 11 May 1938, Page 13
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