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Show KILL THE PEACH BORER NOW Do Not Wait Until Spring, for Then Eggs Will Be Hatched and Insects Scattered. (By W. H. UNDERWOOD.) Go to your blacksmith with a teni or twelve inch flat file and have five or six Inches of the small end made Into the shape of a sharp-pointed knife blade with one side of the blade flat and the other half round. Both edges of the blade must be sharp. Bend this blade to a crescent shape,) with the flat side on the inside of the bend. Put a good handle on and you' File for Scraping Trees and Half-Diamond Half-Diamond Hoe. have an Instrument with which you can sit down to a tree and scrape all sides of it without moving. The diameter di-ameter of this bend should be at least three inches. After the first frosts, go through the peach orchard with this little Instrument, scraping the bodies of the trees at least two Inches from the sur face of the ground. A small diamond or half-diamond shaped hoe, with a handle not over two feet long, is another tool you must have to get over the trees rapidly. In the late fall, most all eggs have hatched out, and most of the little grubs will be between the earth and bark, within a few Inches of the top, of the soll.In scraping the rough bark or outside of the bark of the tree, you will get 95 per cent, of them. In the spring go over the trees, again. In three or four days after1 going over the trees the second time, go over them a third time. Then, you can readily see all you have missed the second going over. In the third going over draw the soil back to the trees, leaving the dirt a little the lowest at the base of the trees. |