THISTLES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXI, Issue 2603, 21 November 1865, Page 5

THISTLES.

/ /• , To tlio Editor of Hio'Daily'SouthtonCkom. I - f ' tfiß.i-rYour paper beiiV£ "react by'-'ijearly .'eve^ybjjrty,, 1 , attfl tiMiouliuJy" those i« authority,, I am sure you "will 'liave' ti6'ol)ject!oh 'to ventilife ;fh'e,fftc'fc,"tl»at Scotch thistles,' to 'ah kUrraing oxt«nt ); growing ou.tho public 1 bii«h.,ro'ad(i, c<?t\fisoaied imcl/wastfj lt^uds, "ot 'the p'roVinco^'ind als6Vn 'Absentee^ a^.otl^ey t na^ l ocoupied landi in this and the^uakwjdi^tifip^ ,(t ( 'i^oalc from observation), and' that' if they "are riotde-" stroyed before the seeding time a fearful spread of them will take place.

;:^A gre^many^of the,^regi^nfc^and.^^unyi^l settlew arc, making strenuom, exertions .to,er»dio»tr * pv private} are overspread with rjtf Wl , „with your perraisuon, I, ►would. 8«gge»» that hi* „ fcpnor the Superin fendent, o^wMeyer ii hii > deputy^ ft'tlusdekrtme^ graWofficeri in, the cfifterentpuilyM "itnow, to () keep the,' immigrants 'employed, in deit^ing ' ttfoiie thus do more 'good, ihah eyen constjijiJting ro»dB | Or ) highway* by day'worlc'. „, ';' • f ] ,;,-,,,,,(,. H ,i ' Eor the'private.pcoupied andj'unoooubied landf ltt out yiag^utricti; Vi« oE, coursV ekpeoied Jhif.'tHe I ,' ; Tuspeotor'of Thistles, itt his regtjlar^ routine r of j( visiting, will nerndvontuie see and not. ' , , '„ If this scourge he allowed to tiike I,^1 ,^ further iooV, ! ( \ lands of ibe'proTin6s"wiu not^e'j worth ooonpying,', ' (r( and, in' after' years', it can "easily be' foreieen will^ () become the thistle question, in Parliament ' and the r thistle mani* out of it. , Tlie province of Taranaki,, granted a lajrg'e sum, after the firat'w'ar to\yar,ds'thss "" f ' ( most nece^ry;, work. <( experiende ( in tho i f ' ( farming interest know weU enough tue danger of the t ( spread of this fearful weed in New Zealajjil. Sltranger«(S 1 tranger« ( and others not acquainted in the matter may treat it . as a very light one ; bub it i« otherwise. ' ' ' , 1 Thistles, to Mly destroy t tUem, must betaken 1 oufc, \ , or rather A\\% out, root and ntcm, and the, whole' exposed to the sun, or it is- useless. I^ 'th^stem'is ( ' merely cut off, they am sure" to 'grow again. ( ',This . st'em-loi)jiing is a very easy way of fulfilling a 'cori^ "* tract for eradicating them j bjffi it won't clo." ' Hoping I am not taking up too milch of your, > space,— lam,' &0.,' ", ' ' X ' ('( ' ' ' WhiatShbap. '' ' Pukekohe, November 18, 1j865. ' , „ . ' '„