THE CODLIN MOTH.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2120, 9 February 1886, Page 4

THE CO DLIN MOTH.

(Lvrr. 1 lion Times j Pin-, cno^tic Semetary of the Agiieultuial .ui'l Pastoral Association has been away on a well earned holiday. Some ilt.i h.i« pobM'.s ,ed tho usually well-in-foinu's tli it hi-, tup had something to do with ijatliuing hints fur the planning and or^aniaiiii,' of tho new Show Grounds As a mittc-i of fact, Mr Murphy had ->ome intention of the kind when he sfcaif-ed, and he then expected Id's tom to extend tluough Victoria ; but tho stiike of lumpera and labouieis which has lately kept lifty -teaineia lying idle at the Melbourne \\ h.irvcs, thieatened to extend until tho Union Company's boats were in eluded in the boycotted list, so that Mr Mmphy thought twice befoic leaving Tasmania for Melbourne. Being made prisoner there for an indefinite penod, did not scan attuetive enough to a bus>y man with only a few <laya to spaie, so thu'A. and P. Association's Secretary staged where he w.is. Mr Murphy has been simply on a pltMsure trip, bo lie says. There are difleiuit wa>sof taking pleasure. That followed by Mr Murphy is to tramp through a country with the thermometer at lOOdeg in the shade, and miles of foicot on fiie on all hands, lly this means lie obtained a change of atmosphere, some healthy exercise, and the best insight impossible into fanning operations. "On the whole,"' says Mr Muiphy, " I don't think I hate very much to to tell you. The countiy appeared prosperous — more piospeious than our own ; people did not complain so much of the bad times. There is not such a fiee use of the word ' depression.' You see, Tasmania is u rich little country ; besides that, they have just gone in for 'asphited policy of public works,' and the labouriug classes are quiet ; added to which it was summer, and the islanders then make their harvest from tho toiuists, who swarm over from Melbourne and Sydney. It is the heatstricken Australian's happy huntingground, as Now Zealand will become m time, in fact is becoming now— we had several touiists on board our steamer bound for the Otago lakes. '• I do not think either that we have much to learn from them as regards farming. The Go\ernment have hit on a good idea, though ; they keep a little model farm close to Hobart, and all the gaols, O'd Men's Home 3, refuges, &c, — all the places where the remnants of the old convict elemeut are kept— are supplied with milk, butter, &c, from it. Ife is worked on the highest scientific principles, and you may judge of their eiFect fiom this one fact. Three crops of Italian rye giass were taken off their giound alieady this dry year. Pei haps our Government might take a hint from that. The most important subject I have to talk about is the Codlin Moth. There is every probability that we shall have a tremendous howl and outcry about it here very soon. Our Government won't let a Californian apple into the country, but every steamer from Hobart lands cargoes of them at the Muff once a foitnight, and Tasmanian orchaids are simply swarming with the pest. To speak within icason, I should say that at least two-thirds of the apple ciop in the oichards I examined are destroyed by it. The seed is sown heie broadcast. Everyone in the island complains, but no pri\ ate cfioi ts are made to eradicate the plague. Go\ eminent may hay c passed an Act perhaps, but its practical effect is not seen anywhere. To conviuce people of the reality of the pest, I have brought over these specimens in spirits of wine," and Mr Murphy displays a number of small pink worirs about an inch long, looking particularly flourishing. "T caught the biggest just as he was coming out of an apple, and beginning to take his way on to the chrysalis stage. This is a nice state of things for a country where many people make a comfortable living on small aieas for fiuit giowing, sending shipments to Sydney, Melbourne, and New Zeahnd, isn't it ?""

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