"THE YELLOW PERIL.”

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2804, 23 November 1931, Page 7

"THE YELLOW PERIL.”

RAGWORT SEASON AHEAD. In a leading article on ragwort, headed “The Yellow Peril,” the “Moryinsville Star” says: “It is known that the wind will car-j-y ragwort seed at least twenty miles, and the spread of ragwort in the Morrinsville district is duo to the presence of large areas of ragwort on Crown and native land near Cambridge, and in the Hoe-o-Tainui Valley. Seeds from the hill country between Kiwitahi and Cambridge have been borne by th* wind to several farms in the Kereone district, where the settlers affected have been put to considerable expense in trying to keep the weed under control. The same state of affairs exists-in other parts of the county, whore th&rc arc ragwort infested blocks of Crown and native land near farming districts. “The situation is a very serious one for many farmers, and we do not exaggerate when we state that it is worthy of being made an election issue. Nothing is so disheartening to a conscientious farmer, who has hy painstaking efforts got rid of this weed than to know that next year it will be as bad as ever through laxity on the part of those who are supposed to lead.”