MOTH-TRAP WANTED.
... £500 PREMIUM SUGGESTED. . Sheep-farmers 'are in need'of the assistance bf some ingenious -person who can in. venfc a successful trap to catch the moth of the. caterpillar which destroys their rape and turnip (and cabbage) crops. Mr. M. Murphy, F.L.S., retiring .president of the Canterbury A. and P. Society, speaking at a meeting last Thursday, saic} that from the experience of experiments he had carried out this season, he thought that the pest'could not be successfully treated by any of the ordinary methods * used for the destruction of other, plant pe6ts. He was convinced that *11 j mcm - ■ k m .°th would never be controlled until a machine was invented for capturing the moth, which, from the insect's peculiar habit of flight, should not b© impossible. There wero 270,000 acres under turnips and.rapo in Canterbury, and, estimating the damage done by this pest at ss. per acre—and this probably was far too lowthere 'was a dead loss amounting to £68,750. It would not be too much' to offer £600 as. a gested™ an e ®°' ma °hine M sug-
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 473, 3 April 1909, Page 3
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180MOTH-TRAP WANTED. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 473, 3 April 1909, Page 3
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