TOPTOE AMONG THE ’TATOES
LONDON, May 27.
“Tiptoe Through the Tulips’’ has become “Tiptoe Through the Potatoes’’ for land girls. Ministry of Agricultural experts are staging a plant-to-plant hunt in the famous Vale of Evesham for Colorado beetles.
After the discovery of 10 Colorndos on a small holding, believed to be the “children’’ of a female beetle from the Continent last summer, every row of the crops will be searched.
Searchers have been warned to move on tiptoe so as not to disturb the beetles and cause them to take to wing and spread the pest, of which British farmers are mortally afraid and which the Ministry of Agriculture has been making efforts for years to avert.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22669, 21 June 1948, Page 2
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