RAGWORT MENACE
CARELESS METHODS REASON FOR SPREAD A visiting farmer, who has had over 25 years’ experience in ragwort infested country, in a conversation yesterday expressed his surprise at the amount of ragwort that was being allowed to flower in clean country in the Waikato. Some plants, he said, were being allowed to flower even in hay paddocks. He had seen some farmers cutting the isolated plants, but then leaving them on the ground or throwing them on the road or in drains. As seeds would ripen on these plants such plants should be gathered and burned or treated with sodium chlorate.
Where a few pounds would combat the ragwort menace now. said the visitor, it would take thousands of pounds in a few years’ time. County councils and other local bodies could not be too severe on offenders as ragwort was getting a really alarming hold in some districts he had visited.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21035, 10 February 1940, Page 19 (Supplement)
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153RAGWORT MENACE Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21035, 10 February 1940, Page 19 (Supplement)
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