Sonic few vears back a young Rongokokatio settler took over a farm that was at the time becoming rapidly infested with blackberry. The worst of this was cut and basic slag as topdressing was treelv used, with the result that the blackberry has now disappeared. Apparently the top-dressing caused a profuse growth of grass, and ■ the young blackberry shoots were eaten off with it as they came up.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 297, 14 September 1927, Page 16
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