CATERPILLAR PEST
NORTHERN WAIROA DISTRICT YOUNG CROPS ATTACKED [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] DARGAVILLE. Wednesday Young maize, potato, tomato and other tender vegetable crops growing on farms in Northern Wairoa districts have lieen attacked by caterpillars, according to reports received by Mr. E. H. Arnold, instructor in agriculture at Dargaville. As far as can be ascertained the caterpillars are of the species which usually attacks pastures in the late summer and autumn following floods. It is feared that trouble is likely to be experienced throughout this district wherever crops are being sown, and on this account farmers are being recommended to use poisoned bait.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23203, 24 November 1938, Page 12
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103CATERPILLAR PEST New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23203, 24 November 1938, Page 12
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