THE BLACKBERRY SCALE.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1918, Page 5

THE BLACKBERRY SCALE.

To the Editor. V Sir.—A few words 011 the above su&V • jcct will be of interest to a great BUiober of Tarannki farmers. It is well known to most of us that what is galled the English lluckberrv depreciate* thft value of many a farm in our faii ■ Xow I am happy to say that the 1 Ecala is playing old ifnrrv* with my blackberries. Some two years sinco I oIM ' ■ served this scale iu my ga*deu in Vi«' ■ vian street, which destroyed all thej fclac-kberry stems, but not the roots. 1 '■< Yesterday I took a branch of an acada covered with scale out to my laud at ''Waimea," new VYestown- /When I ar> rived thero I i'oifgd the hedges and plants about tlie ground badly scorched by the same scale. Tho lato or autumn growth was dead. It would be « good thing if our inspector or flcalv department in Wellington could inform us' when and how to remove and distribute 1 useful insects into tbe badly - bush farms of Taranaki- Some people wonder how the blackberry first «»wnii to Taranaki. I can tell them. Thg flips' plant was brought from Auckland Iffl tho lato Mr. J. C. Sha.rlo.nd in 1862. xUr . plant thrived wonderfully, and p£opie c.-une from far and near to taste than bid acquaintance, the English Madp berry Cuttings were taken from tUft plant to Mangorel and from there it seems to have spread mostly alloverfWfo older part of the province.—I am, eta—. w. E. BAviiay 'Now Plymouth, Oct. 29, 1918.-