Show DEATH TO THE DESTROYER SALT lake fruit of all kinds until I 1 the past two or three years was a 8 luxury it cannot tae vae excelled excene aroi oIoi rox lox fineness and flavon flavor with the exception of grapes the california fruit ripened id iri a climate aim alm almost Os t tropical does not reach the rich and exquisite taste of our utah products but latterly an enemy has invaded eur our orchards whose insidious and unchecked attacks have increased to such a degree that ruin has overtaken our apple crop and other fruits are spoiled mod and partially destroyed the co codling moth has settled down here apparently for a permanent home other devourers devou ers rera are taking up their abode in congenial quarters in the territory and this city which seems to be the centre of the armies of ot the destroyer will soon lose jose its fruit reputation unless some combined effort is made to conquer the rapidly multiplying pests A correspondent sends us some suggestions on this subject which we think worthy the attention of every person in this city eity and other places infested with the codling moth he recommends that the ground be loosened for a footer so around the trees and a good coat of lime applied now is the time for this to be done when the trees are in blossom dast them thoro thoroughly tigh ligh at night when there is no wind with a mixture of three parts wood ashes ashe sand and one part parl sulphur also aly place around the trunk and particularly ticul arly in the crotch where the brauc braue branches heb heg fork pieces of woolen rag or burlaps bur laps which will act as traps for the worms the cloths claths to be removed and restored after the worms are destroyed the operation to be repeated until all the apples are gathered the apple appie worm ris his it is generally admitted goes into the ground near the roots of the tree in the fall coming up in the spring as a miller and depositing its eggs in the blossom the lime ilme will kill hill many W i of them I 1 the ashes and sulphur ur will dispose of most moat of the rest and the clothes will catch what worms escape till the fruit season now if every orchard in the city Is treated in this way during the present year the probability is that next yean year the co codling moth will be a lonely stranger la in zion instead of a winged host hobt spreading devastation and poverty we think the effort worth making I 1 our apple crop should be oi of immense value at present it Is a delusion and a vexation vex rulon alion the fruit looks fair to the eye but inwardly it Is tunneled with ness most moat of it is unfit for the table and the markets reject it the territory may be cleared of the grey little interloper by a uni united t ed effort the atta attack ck must be general single assaults will avail but little log let every person owning or in charge of an orchard ard whether large or small commence the cam laign at once the blossoms come dome forth in their pure white loveliness dust them with wood ashes and sulphur next set the cloth traps and keep keeps up the fight until the fall the labor will not be great the cost is the merest trifle the results will be of immen immense be value to every victor and the whole com community let the mott motto be death to the des dea troyer 21 |