Sweet Briar Problem
Discussing control of sweet briar, Mr R. J. Lee, of Cardrona in Central Otago, says in the latest issue of “Review,” the journal of the Tussock Grasslands and Mountain Lands Institute, there is much evidence throughout that part of the country that, taking a longterm view, it is in the national interest to keep the country heavily stocked till such time as an economic method of controlling the weed comes to light. Mr Lee says that on a block of country on which bulldozing, pulling, grubbing and poisoning had been done between 1956 and 1959, with grubbing being done again in 1961, they had been alarmed at the work required again this year to deal with young briars showing up, in places, at a density of more than 4000 plants to the acre, and much of it where there was a dense sward of grasses. On a block that had been lightly stocked last year there was evidence of numerous small briars coming away, he said. 1
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30230, 7 September 1963, Page 6
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