A Caterpillar Ours
The Yankees are without doubt easily first as a nation of discoverers. They are always discovering something wonderful, and their latest " find " — a means of combating a pest of caterpillars — may be of mtrest to horticulturists. The new caterpillar cure is wonderfully simple, and was, like most great discoveries, made by accident. A woman of the Catskill district, in the State of New York, which has been afflicted greviously with caterpillars, happened to blow a horn underneath an apple tree, and was considerably surprised to the immediate result of her tootling "was ashower of these destructive creatures. She blew again" one long stirring blast," aud was rewarded with another living shower. Then she hastened to her neighbours with the good news, and soon the Oatskill district was a perfect pandernoniuua, the farmers and their families turning out en masse with the nineteenth century substitutes for sackbut, psaltry, ect, to serenade the captious caterpillar to its doom The results are said to have been "beyond expectations," and. to day Oatskill is almost clear of the pest, thanks to a liberal use of cornet, whistle, drum, and tambourine, to say nothing of the piano-organ, and the ancient " hurdy gurdy."
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3100, 19 September 1899, Page 7
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200A Caterpillar Ours Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3100, 19 September 1899, Page 7
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