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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20708, 4 May 1929, Page 11

Much damage is being done to tobacco crops in the United States by a small brown flea-beetle, which bites holes in sleaves.$ leaves. The damage is greatest in fields that ar© shaded by an Overhead meshwork of ropes held up by posts. The shade-giown leaves are the best for cigar wrappers, but are valueless with holes in them. Besides the injuries inflicted by the beetles, the leaves are attacked by the beetles’ Jarvee. The larvae hatch out from their pearly-white eggs, fold on the leaves, to find themselves on an extensive area of food, which they instantly begin eating, and, so long as t]ie leaves have not been sprayed with poisons, all goes well with them.