African Fruit Enlned by Insects.

Manawatu Herald, 2 June 1896, Page 4

African Fruit Enlned by Insects.

II;:' ■' in ■■•:■. iii':i ;;rc of no avuil in dealinc \ . . ' 1 1 tii'j i';:ra::!tic iiy cerntitia— that iicjii,",) of t!i(? fruit iari)ier» in Sonth Afrit ,i. Mr. Will;. tin Tudi of Grnhama-tnv.-n. who < .qn-cK.wa Him opinion, in a hi^li iiiiliio.i'y on fr.iit funning. He Ulls m tint in tho eastern province they ran luvcr di-pend on any fruit excryt; \-d\tm coming to ripeness without duiiKi :,'u from fly Mrvio. tuougn where, o\viu;jf to high altitude— «',ooo feet to U.Cwo ;;uil over— thore are nharp frosta ©vei-y winter such fruits ju» can atand tkt) n>M are fairly free from the p'.ugne. beciir.Mu the Iwva9 cannot tide over the front. It sometimes happens that scarcely a peach ripuna in the whole provinco without n worm inside. Mr. Tnck is for heroic ruuiodies. Ho is decidedly of opinion that if a general and perfect destruction of all the .fruit grown in any one year could bo brought nbont by the common consent of tho whole body of fruit growers tho fly might bo stamped out, but he mournfully confesses that the univeoiil system of "go as yon please." added to tho isolated life of capo funna, renders* any such united action of a year's gelf denial for the common good quite impnvcticablo