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Newspaper
Benalla Ensign
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 05, 1954
Page
6
Farmers discuss eradication strategies for St Johns Wort, recommending topdressing with clover, strategic fencing and stocking, and seasonal grazing to suppress the weed. Methods include burning, dividing paddocks, selective spraying with hormones, and maintaining dry sheep to graze weed areas while preserving forage.
A farmer reports St John’s Wort overgrowing property, with sprayed patches proving costly and ineffective as the weed spreads annually. The article explains past attempts to control it, notes wartime shortages, and discusses why the weed continues to spread in cool Victorian climates and highland areas.
Notes from field trials by the Commonwealth Pestilist Show detailing superphosphate and net gait as remedies for St Johns Wort. Photographs document varying applications and plant response, with claims that good land yields wood pastures and success hinges on land management, ignorance, or energy.
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