NOXIOUS WEEDS.
HOW THKT ABB SPREAD. Tho following analysis of a 'sample of New Zealand grown timothy recently offered for sale and examined by the biologist gives a good indication of how noxious weeds may bo spread through the us© of impure seed. Tho sample contained by numbers 5.7 per cent, of seeds other than timothy. They cored chickwecd; (3) Yorkshire fog; (4) smooth stalked meadow grass; (5) curled dock; (6) sow thistle; (7)/ .Californian thistle. If the sample wore a true index of tho bulk, lib of tho latter would contain the following impurities by number : Ragwdrt, 4.1,374 seeds; Torkshire fog, 9,513 seeds; chickweed, 9,060 -seeds; smooth stalked meadow grass, 2,416 seeds; dock, 453 seeds; sow-thistle 453 seeds; Californian thistle, 151 seeds; total. 63,430 seeds. It is hardly necessary to point out tho worthless pasture such seeding would produce. A better example of the importance of using nothing but guaranteed seed could hardly bo provided. V
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7866, 31 July 1911, Page 2
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157NOXIOUS WEEDS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7866, 31 July 1911, Page 2
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