KEROSENE FOR FRUIT FLY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 91, 10 January 1908, Page 2

KEROSENE FOR FRUIT FLY.

. In tho midst of the'jconflict.ing st-at'gjn.ents as "to" tho effectiveness of . tlie,,kerosene .•cure for fruit fly, it is good to. find the farming expert of the "Sydney Daily,, Telegraph" urging its enforcement. ' That authority says:—"Now that the, summer is .well advanced, aud the weather is favourable tq-tlie operations of the. fruit-fly,. growers' would do well to get their litylo shiny: tins or saucers of kerosene <at work among.- ithe ; .fruit trees.. Last; summer thousands of.r, this:: insect pest were caught by means-of< the kerosene trap, and to that extent good was doue. Tho.fly'has.already mado its appeanyipetfjhis season, and more good will bo dono if growers loso 110 time in fixing once again the traps in their orchards. , Considerin'g-,',tho amount of success which attended .their efforts in this regard last summer, it .-ia< re T markablo how few-growers have so far,:d.piie anything this. season to cope with thisy ; :>slie greatest of all orchard pests. It is, lityvovbr, hoped that they will , not loso auy ( moire .time-in again putting into, executioiwfiilQ plan which proved so efficacious less. than twolvo months ago. - And now that ■ tlio; kerosene specific is admitted on all hands to be the best remedy for tho fruit-fly so far-dis-covered, what is thero to hinder tho Department of Agriculture" making a ..regulation that in every orchard there must bo a certain numbor of kerosene traps fixed duriug certain months of tho year, when it is known that the fly is most active. ■ The method is inexpensive and entails very little trouble, and tho composing of every orchardist. to adopt it would .be no hardship."