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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2778, 20 October 1923, Page 4

There's a natural enemy ok slugs and snails operating in my garden this seawm, writes a correspondent. It is notlilnjp unusual to *ee groups Of empty snail 'shells quite unbroken lying about. For Some time I have been quite puzzled t& account'for this, but ■discovered at last that it was a slim black leech that was responsible, T*o wero at work Oft an unhappy shellback this morning ana had half d«' vouied It when 1 picked It Up. La»t season at thte time ot year my pansy ana viola blooms Wove. <tfUte unsightly through the depredation of both slllffi ana snails, out this year hardly ». bloom is touched. The l**ch is about an inch ibftg and very fcleuder, taperin? to aii acute point at the heat They are certainly silent workers and would ha welcome In any garden,,