INSECT PESTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1757, 23 May 1913, Page 8

INSECT PESTS.

AN EDUCATION BOARD CHART. Tho Education Department recently issued, at great expense, a coloured chart, purporting to show the insect pests of Australia and New Zealand, and the means by which they should be eradicated. If the opinion of Mr. A. E. Banner, agricultural instructor to the Wanganui Education Board, is correct, says tho Feilding "Star," Mr Banner's experience justifies us in assuming that. _ Iw knows what he is writing about, this is only another instance of the axiom ■ that "a little learning is a dangerous thing," and the Education. Department would be well advised to withdraw the chart until it has been revised. Mr. .Banner points outthat '46 pests aro dealt'with inthe chart, of which only 27 have ever been recorded in New Zealand, and of those 27, 25 per cent, belong to the orange, and grape vine. Under the heading "Formulae;" most of the remedies are obsolete, while suck, an important spray as_ ammonia carbonate of copper ip omitted. There are many mistakes in spelling, and generic names are incorrectly stated, .while important pests like the grass grub, bot fly, hessian fly, and root fungi, have been omitted altogether. It is,, says the "Star," up to the experts of tho Education Department to explain.

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