At Mr. F. Hoskin’s farm on the Skeet road, Matapu, a few days ago, a paddock of eight acres of millet just ready to graze was destroyed in a single day and night by caterpillars, which swept over the area. Mr.
Hoskin told a Hawera Star representative that the caterpillars were about an inch long, and though he has destroyed great numbers by fire, the host is still on one of the pad-
docks blocked by a boxthom hedge, j He had arrsnn-ed seme days ago to ’ put in some heifers to graze on the millet, and wnen ne wenc to see it one morning the crop was gone, nothing but the stalks being left. The caterpillars were located in another paddock, where they had eaten off a lot of the grass. The dry grass was set on fire to check the invasion. Mr. Hoskin says he has not known of such an occurrence in Taranaki .for forty years. About that time he had a. similar experience at Okato.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 284, 18 April 1929, Page 6
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