| Abstrakt: |
The article reports that some thirteen years ago the Committee appointed by the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture for Scotland to "Investigate the Eradication of Bracken" under the chairmanship of Dr. Wm. G. R. Paterson, O.B.E., set up experiments to test the effects of scythe cutting on the eradication of bracken. This tool had been used so extensively that it was felt it could be taken as a standard to which other methods might be compared. In dense bracken in Argyll, near Oban, thirteen long narrow plots were laid off at two centres and on the first possible Monday of June in each year the first plot was cut. The scythe cutting experiments give a measure of the number of years cutting is necessary to eliminate the bracken under particular conditions of growth. |
