The Codlin Moth.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1789, 1 February 1886, Page 2

The Codlin Moth.

The Secretary of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association has been over to Tasmania. Ha says “ There is every proliability that we shall have a tremendous howl and outcry about the codlin moth here very soon. Our Government won’t let a Californian apple into the country, but every steamer from Hobart lands cargoes of them at tire Bluff once a fortnight, and Tasmanian orchards are simply swarming with the pest. To speak within reasou, I should say that at least two-thirds of the apple cron in the orchards 1 examined are destroyed by it. The seed is sown here broadcast. Everyone in the island complains, but no private efforts are made to eradicate the plague. Government may have passed an Act perhaps, but its practical effect is not seen anywhere. To convince people of the reality of the pest, 1 have brought over these little specimens in spirits ol wine,” and Mr Murphy displays a number ol small pink worms about an inch long, looking particularly flourishing. •• I caught the biggest just as he was coming out of au apple, and beginning to take his way on to the chrysalis stage. That ii a nioe state of things for a country where many people m*ka a comfortable living on small areas 7' g .. •-miem nhinmslltl from frait-growjug, bbum.u* * Sydney, Melbourne, and New Zealand, wu t it V-