OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS
WHITE BUTTERFLY PEST (To the Editor.) Si)'. —Could some of your readers help me out of my difficulty? For the past three years I have grown a large patch of cabbages, for home use. but each season, just as they have formed into small hearts, the caterpillar from the white butterfly destroys every one of them, no matter what I use to prevent them from doing so. The butterflies come in myriads. I am enclosing a newspaper cutting saying that this pest has been brought effectively under control in the Wairarapa district by the release of the parasite and an abnormal season. Well, we certainly had the coldest winter ever experienced in the far north, but still these pests seem to multiply each year, so I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to let me know how I may obtain some of these parasites, as I am convinced that they are the only remedy for my trouble, it seems such a sin to see such valuable food being wasted each year.—l am, etc., GUY CHOAT. Puketona, Ohaeawai, Bay of Islands. November 22.
Our correspondent should approach the Department of Agriculture,—Ed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1939, Page 7
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195OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1939, Page 7
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