WOOLLY APHIS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 7 April 1926, Page 6

WOOLLY APHIS

(To the Editor.)

Sir. in an article on the a-giile in diistrv. contributed to a Wellington paper and published iu your issue of March 31sl. woolly aphis was named as one of the pests the in chard ist lias to strive against. So iinicfi lia\mg in the past been said in the press tinoughout the Dominion of the effort rl the Cswthron Institute to combat this pest by the introduction and distribution of apltelimts mali, it would he most utij ust to allow to go tinrcutlatlieted an Impression that the Institute had achieved anything less than complete success. Since the introduction of aplielinus mali wonliv aphis lias been negligible as a pest. and the orehardist lias been saved ill,, lulu,ill- and expense of dealing with i| iiv tu:i ving. 1 am. etc., GRCII A RDIST. Tasman.