THE GRASS GRUB.
A FARMER’S REMEDY. *
Speaking to a “Dominion” representative til© other day about the grass grub, a Wairarapa farmer mentioned what he said was a common remedy for the pest. Many farmers who had had experience with bush land had encountered the grub, he said, and their most effective means of dealing with it was to put on as much as the section would hold . The trouble needed to be taken in hand early —as soon as it made an appearance. It was no use putting on light cattle—the heaviest were required. The effect of this treatment was wonderful; the cattle sinrply crushed the grub out of existence. Referring to the present ravages of the pest in the South Island he said that the farmers there, in many cases, had not got the cattle just now to put on the land. Another farmer said that he had been about the country a- good deal lately, and had seen signs of the grub in several parts of the Wellington province. It had not, however, done nearly the damage here that it had in Canterbury.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3252, 24 June 1911, Page 9
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185THE GRASS GRUB. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3252, 24 June 1911, Page 9
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