CODLIN MOTH SPECIFICS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2168, 30 July 1897, Page 5

CODLIN MOTH SPECIFICS.

Much stress is laid upon the importance of spraying infected fruit trees in order to exterminate the codlin moth ; bnt, judging from the results of experiments communicated to the ' Mount Benger Mail 1 by Mr J. J. Smith, of Roxburgh, the grub is as difficult to poison as the proverbial pig, and has ss many lives as a cat. Mr Smith states that after spraying his trees he collected from the bandages some sixty codlin moths in the caterpillar or grub stage, and these he endeavoured (though unsuccessfully) to kill with no less than six different powerful insecticides. He first immersed them in salt without effect; and then took a quantity of dry Parid green, with which he covered tbem.but again they came through none the worse for their poison bath. He next plentifully sprinkled them with spirits of Baits, using a feather to dose them, and on this also proving a failure he gave them an arsenic bath, using an ounce of arsenic, which is supposed to be sufficient for spraying purposes for a barrel of water. This did not kill them either, and Mr Smith then dissolved a piece of bluestone, the size of a walnut, in hot water and dipped them it that. Once more they refused to be exterminated, and, as a last resource, he plunged them into kerosene with no better result than before. Naturally, Mr Smith's faith is somewhat shaken in the various insecticides to codlin moth, and it might assist in arriving at a means for destruction of the pest if orchardists would state their experiences and the methods they have found most successful.

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