VEGETABLE PESTS
ANOTHER POISON BAIT. The entomological staff of the Department of Agriculture (says the Melbourne Age) is perpetually beset with problems involving destruction of the produce of the man on the land. A couple of months ago poison baits were prescribed for the threatened invasion of grasshoppers from New South Wales, and at the present time morsels of apple and carrot treated with strychnine are playing an important part in the campaign against the rabbit pest. Another poison bait is now recommended, this time for the cut worm, which at. this period of the year causes havoc among maize and vegetable crops such as tomatoes and potatoes. The official description for the poison bait is the thorough mixing, when dry, of 11b of Paris green and 241 b of bran. This mixture is then reduced to a damp, crumbly mash with three gallons of water, in which half a pound of salt has been dissolved. The mash should be spread among the rows of affected plants.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4047, 13 May 1938, Page 7
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