CORRESPONDENCE.
CODLIN BLIGHT. To the Editor of the Golonist: „ Sib, —As our'orchards-are considerably affected by thii blight, I send you the following as a remedy which has -been' tried in America and elsewhere with considerable success. Its simplicity should commend it to our orchard owners for a trial, and I feel sure you will be willing to make known, tbrdugh7ypur;columnsj|the result^~^ :s " To one part of sour, cider' or malt liquor add two parts of molasses or feacie'and four parta of water. Suspend one or more bottles | or tins about half full of this mixture in each i tree; examine the traps, say daily and a number of the moth 3 will be found dead on the surface of the liquid.: Bemove the dead moths, and replenish the liquid." Yours, Ac, •■ M. Nelson, Sept. 22, 1884.
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Colonist, Volume XXVII, Issue 3943, 23 September 1884, Page 3
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136CORRESPONDENCE. Colonist, Volume XXVII, Issue 3943, 23 September 1884, Page 3
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