HOW TO CATCH CATERPILLARS.
The farmers in the Catskill district (New York State) are rejoicing over the discovery of a means for combating a pest of caterpillars by which their orchards are being destroyed. The oure is as simple as it is novel, bub it is deolared to be entirely effective. The discovery, like many others which have astonished the world, was the result of an accident. A woman belonging ko the town of Catskill happened to blow a horn underneath a tree, when she was surprised to see hundreds of oaterpillars fall from the boughs. She blew another blast, and there was another shower of the little creatures. She hastened to tell others how she had found out the way to fetch the pests off the trees, and whole sections of the people turned out with drums, bugles, whistle-pipes, and every other noiseproducing instrument in the town. The caterpillars, unable, it is declared, to resist the influence of the noise, continued to fall in showers to the ground, and were rapidly swept together for destruction.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2370, 3 August 1899, Page 8
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