Fruit Diseases And Pests

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14916, 2 March 1949, Page 2

Fruit Diseases And Pests

Methods Of Treatment Outlined Address To Sub-Tropical Association Talking on the treatment of dis,eases which infect, and pests which infest, sub-tropical fruits, Mr F. L. Bailey, of the Department of Agriculture, addressed a general meeting of the Bay of Plenty Subtropical Fruits Association on Monday evening. He dealt with the brown spot and grease spot affecting passion fruit, and spoke of experiments for cleaning off-Bordeaux spray from passion fruit by immersing cases of the fruit successively in baths of dilute acid, alkali and clean water.

Tree tomatoes coated with mildew, said Mr Bailey, could be successfully treated with sulphur spray. Damage by thrip, a pest which chewed the leaf of the fruit, was also mentioned by the speaker, who said that nicotine sulphate would serve as a counter measure to this pest. Spraying experiments with arsenate of lead and D.D.T, on Chinese gooseberries to deal with the leaf roller caterpillar which attacked the fruit, was also mentioned by Mr Bailey, who, after the address answered questions put to him by the meeting.