WAR ON BRACKEN
SCOTTISH PROFESSOR INSECTS AS HIS ALLIES [from a special CORRESPONDENT J LONDON, May 28 A Scottish scientist, waging war on bracken, has"" enlisted insects as his allies and has sprayed the plant pest froii) aeroplanes. in, London this week, describing his campaign, Professor K. W. Braid, of Glasgow, said that up to now the insect allies he has chosen are not ruthless enough. He wants to find an insect that is all bracken-minded and will eat bracken ;to the exclusion of every other plant. ' . Professor Braid believes that if he can defeat bracken he can add £10.000,000 worth of farm land to the countryside. He said: "Bracken has robbed the nation of countless acres of its. best land, even since the beginning of this, century. In Scotland there are 10r ® than 2,000,000 acres of bracken. 11l the north of England vast areas of once-beautiful common land have been swallowed up. t °b®clc is continually to
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23067, 18 June 1938, Page 12
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158WAR ON BRACKEN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23067, 18 June 1938, Page 12
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