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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4234, 22 January 1940, Page 5

During a discussion on ragwort control at the W.aipa County Council meeting to-day Cr J. T. Johnson instanced his experience of ragwort clearing by pulling the plants instead of killing them*with poison such as sodium chlorate. He said that several sacks full of plants had been collected and burned. That destroyed the plants, but he was astonished to find, a season or two later, a very prolific growth of ragwort plants where the sacks of plants had been burned earlier. This convinced' hiln of the need for poisoning, and also confirmed his opinion that the Department of Agriculture and its officers were doing in any advocacy of pulling ragwort in preference to poisoning especially poisoning before the seeds developed. An odd plant or two on a farm could be pulled* to prevent seeding, and thus spreading thousands of seeds, but assuredly other plants would grow where the one plant had been pulled.