HEDGEHOGS AND EARWIGS
EXPERIMENT IN OTAGO Many of the young folk of Dunedin have earned a little silver for spending at. Christmas by capturing hedgehogs and taking them to tho Government office in Rattray Street, whore half-a-crown a head was paid. The officers of tho Entomological Division of tho Agricultural Department wanted hedgehogs for an experiment. One hundred and sixty were delivered, and Mr David Miller, the entomologist, has released them in an Alexandra orchard to fight down the earwigs. It is not yet certain whether tho , putting in of hedgehogs will absolut<4y , control the pest, but the department i ; has sufficient knowledge of the subjcct to warrant a triaL
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19722, 13 December 1926, Page 14
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110HEDGEHOGS AND EARWIGS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19722, 13 December 1926, Page 14
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