A NEW PEST.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1379, 25 October 1886, Page 2

A NEW PEST.

Tho English farmer's cup of trouble and anxiety is full enough, in all conscience, without the appearance of tho Hessian fir. That highly obnoxious little beast has been discovered, in wheat and barley ropi near Hertford, and MissOrmerid (for the consulting entomologist of t a <>,oyal Agricultural S icio*y is a woman) h*s positively identified it. Worse even than tho dreaded Colorado heede or “ later hog,” for it attacks the most precious of all crops, tho li- ssian fly should become instantly tho object of every Urraer’a careful search, It has done tv tibia things in Germany, the UuLed States, and * an ad* for a long time, and ( illy tho greatest care can save ns now it has at last appeared amongst ua. The tly may be easily recognised, and all who have wheat or barley crops showing any signs 1 f root should immediately examine ti e plants, s»id particularly their leaves or h ades near the second j mats from the ground. If tlmj find small pttpio chestnut colored, like small fDx seeds, about "t o tenth of an inch in length, it is tho

iosbDu fir. As to remedial measures, b -yot d cutting t'lo crops above the second, joint and burping the stubble or ploughing it deobly in they may t o learned from Miss Ormerod, Dunster Lodge. lalesworth, or from M<’ Charles WhitHtoad, Chairman rf the Seeds and Plant Diseases Committee of the Royal Agricultural Society, Banning House, Maidstone,