DEATH-DEALING DUST
NEW WAY OF FIGHTING PARASITES. A strange way of dealing with the parasites of fruit trees has been found by the United States Board of Agriculture. It recommends shooting them. A gun has been invented to shoot at a parasite-infected tree with a wad of cotton. The cotton is saturated with an insect, or parasite-killing, powder. On its path the wad breaks up at the right moment, scattering its poison in a cloud on the trees, its twigs and leaves. The advantage of the invention is that, the marksman can bombard the tree, but is himself well removed from the dangerous dust he spreads.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1939, Page 3
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