Word: ramaley
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...slaughter has not suppressed them. Australia also had a distressing experience with the prickly pear - but in this case there was a happy ending. The prickly pear story, abstracted from a publication of the Imperial Bureau of Pastures & Forage Crops, was told last week in Science by Botanist Francis Ramaley of the University of Colorado...
Cactoblastis waged its war so well that prickly pear infestation has now been reduced 75% or more. Writes Professor Ramaley: ". . . The scattered remaining plants are not a menace-indeed they are of value for breeding Cactoblastis. Areas of former dense prickly pear are now being used for crops, for dairying and for grazing. . . . [This] land will never revert to its previous useless state...