INSECT PESTS AND REMEDIES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2958, 30 June 1891, Page 2

INSECT PESTS AND REMEDIES.

Most orchardists have been forced to the conclusion that the numerous insect pests with which the country is fast becoming overrun cau best be kept in check by spraying the trees with solutions of various iusredients at the different seasons cf the year. The .scale tribe, for instance, can be reached after the fall of the leaf with, say, a solution of caustic potash or bluestone ; the moth and winped tribe, on the other hand, are spreading destruction only during the spring and summer, and, therefore, call for different treatment. The desideratum to be able to employ any of the several remedies effectually is a spraying machine sufficiently cheap to bring it within the reach of all classes and of such simple construction as to bo easily managed and not likely to be continually getting out of rspair. In connection with this subject we have lately received a letter from Captain Hutton of Otahuhu, this gentleman as is well known takes a great interest in the subject of fruit growing and not long since imported a spraying machine lately brought under notice in England and called the Strawsoniser. On the 18th lnst. Captain Hutton wrices as follows:—''Sir, I seem to-day's Ht-ald that the Cambridge dis trict is sufforui? from the apple scale and that they are looking for cheap spraying apparatus. I have just received a letter from Miss Ormerod, Consulting Etomologist to the Royal Agricultural Society of Eugland, of which I am a member, and she saye : " Our greatest advance lately has been in finding that what one may call an oidinary garden engine (a small barrel on two wheels fitted with the form of nozzle invented by Mr Stott), will give a beautiful spray and throw it as high as is needed for ordinary sized plumtrees. This " Stott'u uonzle " seems to be quite solidly approved of and only costs rive shillings, which is much better than having to buy special apparatus. The littlo knapsack pumps (L'Eclair Xo. ]) wo find answer well, whero thore is no room for wheeled machines. I posted a couple of circulars to you yestorday with price list of the new hand strawsonizer.— Faithfully yours, HowAitn HltTON."