AN INTERESTING LETTER
FROM ST. VINCENT IN THE ATLANTIC.
THE TRIALS OF A COTTON GROWER.
The following is an interesting andgraphic little description of the trials of growing cotton, written by a resident in St. Vincent in her letter to a friend in New Zealand. The cotton was really a delight to look at, and. behold! Along comes the cotton cater pillar in its millions and eats up half our crop in spite of most vigorous "dusting” with Paris green and lime! It is too bad. Some of the fields were “dusted” nine times. Imagine tho expense! Gangs of labourers with bags macle of sacking full of this mixture shake them over acres of cotton plants, had started to grow afresh, back would come file hordes in swarms. A regular cat and mouse game, and most disheartening. The whole siland has been infested with them, andin some districts they were so plentiful that they would cross the road in swarms, marching through Iho labourers houses, where they had to tie up the babies’ faces and heads so as to prevent grubs getting into their ears and noses. The butterfly a small arrow-shaped moth, comes from America to us. and lets us rear its horried progeny which, as I describe, ruin the cotton crops.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 10 December 1927, Page 11
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213AN INTERESTING LETTER Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 10 December 1927, Page 11
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