WORTH KNOWING.
, O' Caterpillars are troubling the farmers up the coast, and a correspondent writes to a Taranaki paper that a crop of oats may be saved in the following way On the side of the crop where the caterpillars are swarming in, cut as clo*c to the ground as the machine will admit a strip of, say, a chain wide, then plough on the side nearest the crop three furrows, the last furrow being 8 inches deep. Mr Tate, of Waitaia, adopted the above with the following result. It allowed the birds to get to the caterpillars, whereas they cannot get at them in the standing grain. The furrows being ploughed stopped the caterpillars, which gave the birds (who came on the strips by hundreds after the caterpillars) a still better chance. If Mr Tate had not adopted the above he believes he would have lost quite one-half of a . fine crop of oats this season, which is now ready for cutting.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 984, 15 January 1883, Page 3
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