NOTHING LIKE COPPER

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1927, Page 8

NOTHING LIKE COPPER

PROGRAMMES UNIMPORTANT

HERE

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

AUCKLAND, This Day.

Kecently a Mount Eden resident installed a radio set, ana, though dissatisfied with, the standard of entertainment broadcasted from the Auckland station, says he has received hi 3 moneys worth in the salvation of a much-prized peach tree. This was badly affected with leaf curl, but after the installation of a copper wire aerial overhead it began to improve immensely, and is now itself again. The gentleman referred to dissented most emphatically from the suggstion that perhaps the. trie had benefited from IYA programmes, pinning his faith in the efficacy of the copper as a cure for the-parasitical diseases of the plants.

His confidence in this respect is borrie out by the experiences of a resident of Greenlane, who declares he has effected a complete cure in the case of tomato plants badly affected with blight'by sticking copper tacks in the sterna. "And why not?" he asks, "is not sulphate of copper used as a spray for plant diseases*''