CUTTING OF CALIFORNIAN THISTLE.
In view of certain statements that Californian thistle is checked far more effectively when cut in flower than is the case with earlier cutting, the Department recently carried out tests on selected areas in Canterbury. Cutting at the respective stages was done last season, and the results, after the lapse of a year, have now been duly observed and recorded. Neither area gives any indication that late cutting results in the reduction of the thistles, there being no apparent difference between the late and early cut patches. Taking everything into consideration, including the obvious risk of allowing the thistle to flower, the Department cannot endorse the method of late cutting.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXVI, Issue 3, 20 March 1923, Page 196
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114CUTTING OF CALIFORNIAN THISTLE. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXVI, Issue 3, 20 March 1923, Page 196
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