PROTECTION FROM SNAILS.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —Some time ago I noticed an inquiry in the "Star , ' as to the best kind of protection of plants from .snails. 2Co\r. tobacco dust, salt, etc. All these, however, .are only but an effectual life-long protector, is L irfade as, follows t -Get a piece of zinc say about a yard long; and four or six inches deep. On the. upper edge ' of''the zinc fasten a strip of copper an inch wide, turned: down on each side of the top; and form into a. ring. Then clasp round the plant, which is. thus rendered impervious to all attacks of snails. The modus operandi is as follows: Snails do not like to travel zinc, but the xnoment that their horns or feelers touch the copper, they either tumble , off or go in another direction. When the plant is sufficiently strong to resist the attacks of snails, the electric ring can be unclasped and put round something else.—l am, etc., ...',"' AMICUS.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 250, 19 October 1904, Page 2
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