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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5361, 19 February 1916, Page 3

When the* codlin moth a few years ago began to cause trouble for the apple growers ift the Dominion, various methods of dealing with the pest were adopted. Some growers pinned their faith to binding the butt of the tree with sacking ,believing t'mt the grub of the moth crawled up frorq the ground and woukl be sayied in its upward progress by the sacking Seeing that the egg from which ’.he j larva L hatcln-d is deposited by the moth on the tree itself, the idea' that the grub crawled from below was erroneous; still, there are some who continue to put sacking on their trees’. My so doing, Mr W. J. Courtier, the Government Orchardiats points out, they are but providing a perfect breeding phvoo for the moth. The other day Mr Courtier was, in support of his warning, exhibiting in Rangiorn a pice of sacking taken from a tree in the district which was thickly inhahib'd by the pest in all •stages of development, from the eluysalis state to the moth ready to commence tin* propagation of its species. With this evidence of the fallacy of successfully dealing with the pest in the manner indicated, them who have adopted it would be wife to remove tluj. Sacking from the trees and spray with arsenate of lead, the only effective remedy for the moth vet introduced.