ANSWERD TO CORRESPONDENTE
By Agricola.
“Anxious Farmer” writes; —“The writer has a grass paddock which was allowed to get very rank and long last summer, and now at the present moment it is all lying dead on the surface. We are gathering it up, and there is nothing to be but soil. It is a nice free, sweet land. W ould it be safe to run the harrows pver it and resow ? I was thinking of doing that, but would like if you would favour me with your opinion. We would get the grass much sooner if surface-sowing would do, and as I am a dairy-farmer it would be a serious loss if ploughing is required.” Your grass would not lie dead on the surface without a good reason. Probably it has been eaten out with grass grubs, which will treat any young grass you sow in the same way. You might break it up for green crop. Two years’ green crop in succession, kept absolutely free from weeds, would be the most effectual way of ridding the land of grubs. Frequent working exposes the grub to small birds, which account for a lot of them, and clean cultivation starves thorn out. Success depends on leaving nothing growing in the ground for them to live on. If the breaking down is done with the Norwegian harrow it will kill a lot of them.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3103, 3 September 1913, Page 19
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233ANSWERD TO CORRESPONDENTE Otago Witness, Issue 3103, 3 September 1913, Page 19
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