HOW WEEDS SPREAD.
DEFINITE RESULTS OF EXPERIMENT. In view of the losses caused in various parts of the Dominion by noxious weeds, an experiment carried out by a member of the Te Awamutu branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union is of general interest. It is claimed as a result of this experiment that district action is futile, and that a. nation-wide drive is the only step which will have any marked results. Recently this farmer erected two poles a few yards apart, much after the style of Rugby goal-posts, and fastened between them a large sheet of canvas. The site selected was on a hill-top about 400 feet in height at a point not far from where several county boundaries meet. With a south-east wind blowing fairly strongly, he kept watch and after one hour he took down the canvas. It was literally covered with seeds of ragwort, Scotch thistle and Californian thistle. It has been stated that each seed-head of ragwort has many thousands of seeds, so light that they are wafted on the breeze for long distances. The experiment carried out at Te Awamutu would certainly appear to confirm this theory.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4845, 14 May 1936, Page 3
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194HOW WEEDS SPREAD. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4845, 14 May 1936, Page 3
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