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Show Hot Water For The Borer. A leading fruit-grower of Missouri killed peech tree borers in 1894 and again '95 by diggingt he dirt away so as to exposoe the spur roots at the top of the ground and useing the dirt to form a basin about the tree extending six or eightinches above the ground level and then filling this basin with boiling hot water. This kills every worm in the roots and lower six inches of trunk of the tree, and does not injure the tiee in the least. The worms crawl out before dying. He asks those who are afraid, to try it on one or! two trees and be convinced. North America Horticulturist. ' |