HINT FOR SWEET PEA GROWERS.
In the early spring, when slugs are troublesome, it is often difficult to keep them at bay with soot and lime, as the frequent rains soon wash thein away. The best remedy is to catch them, and a simple, cheap and effective slug trap can be made as follows: Scoop out a hole about four inches in diameter ana two or three inches deep. Place a nttie bran in the hole, then cover it with a piece of slate or tile to keep it dry. This attracts the slugs from the sweet peas, and they hide under the tiles or slates where they can be collected each morning and destroyed. The bran should be replaced by fresh from time to time, as when it gets mouldy it ceases to attract them. Set these traps at distarices of, say, ciglit or ton feet along the rows.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 185, 6 August 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)
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150HINT FOR SWEET PEA GROWERS. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 185, 6 August 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)
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