CATERPILLARS AT FEILDING.
'' y. "._.;■.■. HrjGE/swAKMS. '•,..■; .Last' night's'■. jeildi'ng." "Star".contains tiro items about caterpillars. ;■ Its Sandon correspondent j says that, while tho Sandon : train was: coming up from, Fox'ton the'other day, it passed through a drove of caterpillars,, which•had evidently come out of some'crop near.'Eongotea, and-were passing; over, the .road and tramline to get.linto. a: young'crop-of oak belonging to Mr," J. -G., The ■caterpillars were black and up. to, two. 'inches, in length. When they came to:'the. surface bf. ; 'the: iroh''rail, the; foreign"' substance' put them out of their reckoning,' for they stayed there. This resulted,as might have .been-expected..when the 1 next train oamo'along. vTlie' Beacbnsfield correspondent of. , the .paper writes- that the caterpillars-have made their,.appearance," and have 'in".- somo instances almost ruined the grain .crops. I At -:the : -same time'the'iblighthas played havoc with.potatoes arid :swedes. v ,V ;::"■■:. ■ : ,
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 748, 22 February 1910, Page 8
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137CATERPILLARS AT FEILDING. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 748, 22 February 1910, Page 8
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