BLACKBERRY PEST
ERADICATION EXPERIMENTS farnham: royal scientists DISAPPOINTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 16. The Farnham Royal scientists are disappointed with the caterpillar on which they were relying to kill the blackberry plant, as they found, that it is equally ready fo cat raspberries and loganberries, and it is therefore not suitable. It is hoped to eliminate ragwort by tho cinnabar moth pijlar, whose only other lood is groundsel.—Sydney ‘Sun’ Cable.] [A previous message stated: — “ Scientists at tho Parasite Zoo, Farnham Royal, arc attacking the problem of .enabling the dominions to combat innumerable posts, such as the blowfly, ft is hoped to eradicate the blackberry post in New Zealand and Australia' by moans of an insect whose lame will work down to the root stocks and up again, destroying the young plants.”]
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Evening Star, Issue 19664, 17 September 1927, Page 4
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132BLACKBERRY PEST Evening Star, Issue 19664, 17 September 1927, Page 4
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