DESTRUCTION- OF PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 32, 7 February 1916, Page 9

DESTRUCTION- OF PRODUCE.

(To the Editor.) ■Sir,—l noticed in the "Star" last night a paragraph ti> the effect that fifty cases of apples had been condemned, anu sent to the destructor on account of codlia moth. At a season like tbia, it is quite impossible to extermiuate the moth: they are so numerous. Going through my apple orchard with a candle » last evening the moths were as thick around mc as flakes of enow in a snowstorm, and spraying under such circumstances is almost negligible, unless one sprays and sprays until the fruit is coated' with arsenic, and if this is not far more dangerous, especially to children, than a Email grub in the apple core, which can easily be avoided, 1 think any person can judge. Fruit of all kinds is* scarce, and shortly will not be had, and potatoes in the same position, and the Department bad better be a little careful what they 6end 'to the destructor, putting growers to a cost of 1/6 a case cartage there, besides loss of fruit.—l am. etc., THOMAS ALLAN.