GREYTOWN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9710, 4 February 1910, Page 5

GREYTOWN NEWS.

(From Oar Own Correspondent). Thursday. At the Mag'"strate's Court, yesterday morning, before Mr R. H. Turton, S.M., a charge of allowing cattle to stiay was°preferred against D. B. Stevens, and' a fine of 5s and 7s costs was imposed. H. Morris, similarly charged, was fined 10s and costs 7s. In the case Borough Council v. C. Hawke, a similar oltence, defendant was fined 20s and costs, and on a second charge was ordered costs 7s and solicitors' fees £1 Is. In the case W. •O. Williams v. B. i Wadham, a claim for £4 10s, for repair of gate' and fence, repair of damage alleged to have been done by defendant's driver, judgment was given tor plaintiff for £l, without costs.

THE POTATO CROP.

1 notice that most of the potato crops about Greytown art attacked by the moth, and that the tops after coming to maturity are curling up. The tubera on the whole are very smalh In fact, most of are a failure. In conversation with a farmer, your correspondent [was informed that when the tops are well grown a small white moth lays eggs in the fork of the bottom leaf, and the grub enters! the stem and bores towards the root, which becomes rotten, and as a consequence deprives the potato of all starchy matter obtained from the top. The supply of milk received at the &reytown cheesefactory .this morning as 2,479 gallons, oeing 210 gallons in advance of the corresponding date last year. The company hope to send Home 250 cases of cheese by ""the Paparoa on Saturday. A NOVEL METHOD. One of our fruitgrowers infromed me the other day that he has been using lamps for the codlin moth in preference to spraying, and that the precentage has been much larger than any previous year, while v the quantity of fruit damaged Ly the moth is much smaller. The lamp he makes out of salmon tins tilled with spraying oil, and he splits a number of dry yellow pine stripa and winds scrim around them for the wick, and then stands the lamp in a bowl of water. These he lights about 9 o'clock at night, placing them in the orchard in the vicinity of the fruit trees, .allowing the lamps to burn all night. In the morning the lamps are literally smothered with thousands of moths. He is satisfied that it is a more effective method than spraying.