A SCOTCIIED ENEMY.
An accidental and most useful discovery—especially grateful to all green-keepers—has been made by a grounds-, man at Bournemouth. He left the hose on by mistake with the nozzle just under a tarpaulin. When he came back and removed the tarpaulin, he found the lawn looking like a green after the application of a worm-killer. Every leather- jacket had come to the surface. It is alleged by one com- mentator (in the Estate Magazine) that " several hundred- weights of leatherjackets have been removed from one green " by this means. It is likely to become a standard method of treatment. Mr. Bernard Darwin's favourite green at Rye, whose sufferings from this noxious insect were proclaimed among all golf clubs, will no longer be in danger. Water and a tarpaulin are a sovereign remedy.
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