ELECTROCUTING GARDEN PESTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 229, 27 September 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

ELECTROCUTING GARDEN PESTS.

An English daily newspaper that gardeners m the future, using washes and insecticides plant pests, will be able to destrl^ 1 sects by electricity. y Mr J. Neale, an electrical engine Southborough, Tunbridge Wells Invented aiid patented a "deaf}! , which utterly destroys garden peg?®? its means an electric current »' y through the leaves and stems of rf!®? and shrubs, destroying in it> everything alive except the jy? self. It is only necessary t'oS^; tips of the leaves and stems wl,™ ■ fested with insects with tie * : wand The machine id an arrange of batteries, insulating leads S ri? and earthing rod. A ator is used, which will „ ort hours without recharging. There ' voltage control switch to supply I 1 rent of varying strength: ..to diffeS classes of plants. Except for the arrow shaped copper wand, the machine isS to resercbla an ordinary wireless B6 f J appearazi.e. . , 11 The following results are vouched f„ by a reporter:—Maggot in the cl | an unopened apple instantaneo r killed; aphis on beans destroyed- J? 7 fly instantly killed on rosebuds' 25 light massaging with the wand . Ifc i s suggested that, while deadly t, insect pests, it is harmless to +? plants. Whether the cost of the'u? trocutions is commercially practicablet not known, but certainly the B ubi*J seems worth investigation.— tural Advertiser.") ' rtlcal "