DAMAGE TO PELTS
Weeds Costly
The annual cost to the country caused by weeds such as stork’s bill and barley grass was a great deal more than many farmers and others realised, the principal of Lincoln College (Dr. M. M. Burns) said in an address during a field day at Lincoln yesterday.
This type of weed pierced the skins of grazing animals, and he had been informed that the loss to the country in pelts pierced by such weeds, on the North American market alone, was between £3m and £4m a year. This loss was estimated on information received that pierced pelts had dropped from 19 cents per lb to 13 cents.
Dr. Burns said that not a great deal was being done to prevent this loss, in spite of the effect on the national income, because the effect was remote from the farmer.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30313, 13 December 1963, Page 16
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