n8 



Committee on Small Holdings. 



[may, 



gnaws at first irregularly below the bark. After wintering the 

 caterpillar bores into the wood, and the gallery or tunnel, run- 

 ning in the axis of the infested stem, is round and regular and 

 may reach eight inches in length. The life cycle takes two years 

 for its completion, and the dates quoted for the Goat Moth apply 

 also for the Wood Leopard Moth. The caterpillars have been 

 known to leave their first feeding place and attack younger and 

 fresher growths. 



Preventive and Remedial Measures. — I. Leopard Moth 

 caterpillars in young branches or young stems : as these stems 

 or branches would probably be killed in any case, they should 

 be cut and burned. 



2. The galleries of the Wood Leopard caterpillars are regular 

 in older stems, and a piece of wire or a strong twig pushed into 

 the tunnel vigorously may reach and kill the caterpillar. 



3. Trees infested with the goat moth caterpillars should be cut 

 down and the brood destroyed. 



• 4. As a preventive against the egg laying of the goat moth, 

 smear or paint over the lower part of the stem, up to the 

 height of a man, with a mixture of clay and cow-dung or a 

 mixture of clay, soft soap and paraffin. 



R. Stewart MacDougall. 



The President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries has 



appointed a Committee to enquire into the administration and 



working of the Small Holdings Act, 1892 ; 



Committee on to exam i ne the various arrangements made 

 Small Holding's. , , , ■ r 



by landowners in recent years for the pro- 

 vision of smaller agricultural holdings ; and to report as to the 

 conditions under which such holdings are most likely to be 

 attended with success and as to the measures which may most 

 advantageously be taken, either by legislation, co-operative 

 association or otherwise, to secure the increase of their number 

 The Committee will be constituted as follows: — The Right 

 Hon. the Earl of Onslow, G.C.M.G. (Chairman) ; the Right 

 Hon. the Earl Carrington, G.C.M.G. ; the Right Hon. Jesse 

 Collings, M.P. ; Sir Ralph Anstruther, Bart.; Major Patrick 



