"The top of Mount Egmont is the only part of Taranaki I would guarantee free from Californian thistle," said a cynic at an impromptu meeting of fanners "(reports the Hawera "StarJ. "Wherever land is ploughed," he-add-ed "the thistle comes, and land free from it will soon show it when-plough-ed. It comes in'mainly on the wind. Most people will agree with this. Another said he had some seed which he cleaned under the microscope and took from it, a 4 he considered, ail foreign matter. Yet still he got the weed.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17882, 1 October 1923, Page 6
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