Codlin Moth.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2061, 29 April 1887, Page 3

Codlin Moth.

, 1 wnd you a few lines todSy to Moond jour efforts in calling attention to the seriousness of the plague which we hare in our midst, namely, the codlin moth. I am afraid your readers scarcely realise how serious it H. The climate and soil of Greytown and its neighborhood is especially suited for fruit growing, and this ia- » duatry has made great strides these last few years, so that unless rigorous measures are taken to keep it in check it means ruin to many industrious settlers. I see that in Victoriaand California they say that in a few years - it is only millionaires who will be able to grow fruit. In this colony, in the Nelson province, the peach crop has been runed by this insect this season. I ttererore consider it is the duly of erery orchardist to adopt every means inhisp'wer to stamp out the nest You have already called attention to one remedy, namely, that of spraying with Paris green just as the fruit i* forming Am ther plan is t> hang wide mouthed bottles on the Decs, half lull of I;.- - a: 1 \\Amniliman at A .i.-’-, an,:, t. .’ t thon.-ands of the no I:s in that uai. Ju’it.g lie moinl.s of November, Dec io :v r d * Jauu .ry tVs season. As [ e one »cro-s other reined -a I n -\ ; send them to you. : i‘ me g-eatest d, "icu.ty will be with Pi scof ,r sf'tlcs who wi. 1 do nothing: u jo. while their neihors * are spending f am and keeping their or iarus free from the pest, ado* > ,tir orchards to be regu’ar nu r scrii s fi.m the insect For such as these the law must be put in motion and they must be compelled to do their share of the wars tor our common good. Tztx.