HOW TO FIGHT THE CATERPILLAR.
It is stated on the authority of the “Agricultural Gazette,” of Hanover, that a discovery has been recently made of a new remedy for the prevention of ravages to cabbages by the common caterpillar. A steward of an estate in Hanover having observed that one bed of cabbages was left untouched by caterpillars, while others were infested with them, found that the healthy bed bad a quantity of dill growing on it, the smell of which apparently was obnoxious to the caterpillars. As dill will grow in almost anj’’ soil, it is suggested that the experiment plight bo tried by agriculturists. As indicative of the possibility of there being some truth in this, the “Colonics and India” saj's —“We have heard of the common green (gooseberry) caterpillar being kept off by planting broad beans close to the bushes ; and the pyrethrum, a strong smelling weed cultivated as a garden border flower, is said to protect vines from the ravages of the phylloxera.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2189, 24 March 1880, Page 3
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167HOW TO FIGHT THE CATERPILLAR. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2189, 24 March 1880, Page 3
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