KILLING BUGS BY AIRSHIP.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 192, 15 August 1925, Page 21

KILLING BUGS BY AIRSHIP.

The commercial peach orchard is the latest crop to receive treatment by the airplane dusting, method for controlling insect peets. According to a report received by the Bureau of Entomology of the United.States Department of Agriculture'from its field station at Sort Valley Ga, this process was tried for the first time in March of this year. It took an hour and fifty-five minutes to dust 10,000 peach trees with a mixture of arsenate of lead and hydrated lime. The time recorded included all trips to the landing field to, refil the hopper. For several months the bureau representative* at the Fort Valley laboratory have been giving attention to Se perfection of the technique for using airplanes in this way, with the cooperation of those who have had previous experience In the work at the bollTOevil laboratory at Tallulah, La. It has been necessary to n"**' o of the feeding mechanism of the planes so that the heavy dust used insoot control work would be evenly distributed. A thousand acres of peach tieee in Georgia will be treated by airplane Sring tie season, under the» -upem«<m of the Fort Valley labaratoiy. It « expected that this work will yield jjlu able data on the results, cost of opera tion, |nd" other point*. . -J