DEATH TO INSECTS.
Farmers arc often at their wits’ end how to defend their crops from the attacks of insects which prey upon the plants. A correspondent, writing to our contemporary Land , suggests a remedy which he has practically tested. For some years he has used some peat charcoal in sowing every kind of seed, with the most absolute success in every case, and in the foulest soil. As to the turnip and mangold, the application of this material causes the seedling plant to rush up into the broad leaf so rapidly that the fly can never touch it. Hence a crop insured without any second sowing. The attacks of the slug, the wireworm, the onion maggot, and turnip fly are futile where peat charcoal has been sown with the seed or sprinkled over the young growing plant. The writer referred to has such an exalted notion of the value of this material and its wonderful preserving powers, that he looks upon peat charcoal as one of the greatest boon, ever conferred on farmers and gardeners who use it.
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Patea Mail, 13 August 1881, Page 4
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179DEATH TO INSECTS. Patea Mail, 13 August 1881, Page 4
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