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THE TURNIP FLY.

METHOD OF CHECKING IT.

Mr G. H. Clarke, of Kopuaranga, tells of a simple method .by which the turnip iiy so destructive on turnips, cabbages, and other kinds of vegetation—is effectively held in check in the Old Country. The implement used is -an ordinary, board, about a foot wide and ten feet in length, to which a small wheel is affixed at each end.- This board is smeared all over with Stockholm tar, or molasses, in fact anything sticky, and, pulling from the centre, a horse is <made to drag the board; all over the young vegetables. The leaves being shaken, tile flies are aroused, arid alight on the board in thousands, and there are held fast. Mr Clarke declares that the iiy is easily all but exterminated in this way, and the crops are saved. He suggests as a means of dealing with the codlin moth that boards partly painted with luminous paint and anointed with tar dr other sticky substance should be suspended from the brandies of fruit trees.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10220, 22 April 1911, Page 5

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THE TURNIP FLY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10220, 22 April 1911, Page 5

THE TURNIP FLY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10220, 22 April 1911, Page 5

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