RAGWORT.
Sir, —I read an account in Thursday's Herald by a farmer in llawke's Bay in which lie recommends heavy stocking with sheep lo reduce ragwort and says tlie weed is belter slice]) feed than (h 6 present grass. I have heard of sheep" being fattened off ragwort but afterwards their life was very short. I l lave ' killed sheep off ragwort country myself and the inside is in a bad state, and I should say not fit for human consump. tion. I know of a farm in this district where ragwort is plentiful. The owner had 50 cows besides young stock, and out of his whole herd ho l,';is now'eight cows, besides having lost eight two-vear-old heifers and a bull. As for rearing calves it was an impossibility. This is only one in many cases. The Itawkc's Hav farmer had better coinc to this part of the globe and he can have thousands .u acres to fatten his ewes and lamls and then he will know which is the best grass land or ragwort country. 1 To Puke. KvrrnixNCßn,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20621, 21 July 1930, Page 12
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