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THE POTATO GRUB.

The potato grub, according to the advice given by the Agricultural Department, may be killed by soaking the affected potatoes in water for two or three days (says the Oamaru Mail). Any form of animal life that needs two or three days to drown must be to a certain extent amphibious. That no perfuuctory immersion will suffice to drive the spark of life from the wrigglhg j body of Gelechia operculella was demonstrated at the Kia Ora school the other day, when the scholars *x- i perimented with potatoes irom the' school garden. The affected tubers were immersed in water and! left for, ,24hours. ,At the end "6f that : ciine the water was strained off, and a number of grubs, apparently lifeless were left on a saelc. In half an hour the grubs left on the sack were moving, and the potatoes that had been immersed were again covered with life that a day's soaking had not been sufficient to exterminate.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10202, 1 April 1911, Page 4

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THE POTATO GRUB. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10202, 1 April 1911, Page 4

THE POTATO GRUB. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10202, 1 April 1911, Page 4

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