A CURE FOR GRASS GRUB
Sir.—The cure for grass grub is irrigation. If land is irrigated well, three tjmes or more a season, the grass grub will be scarcely noticeable. What this will mean to Canterbury I will leave you to estimate. For example, I ploughed up half an acre of virgin tussock land, riddled with grass grub, worked it up, cut it into six irrigation checks, all level and with banks about a foot high. To begin operations on the grub, I flooded each check six inches deep and kept it under water for two days; then, after harrowing, put in carrots, parsnips, kale, celery, etc. Then, every two months, I flooded each check again, to a depth of three inches, and turned the water out immediately. After the second irrigation I did not find half a dozen grubs left, and raised a good crop of vegetables.—Yours, etc., EREWHON. June 1, 1943.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19430603.2.78.1
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23964, 3 June 1943, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
153A CURE FOR GRASS GRUB Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23964, 3 June 1943, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in