Eureka Reporter | 1906-08-03 | Page 10 | Fighting Peach Tree Borer

FIGHTING PEACH TREE BORER how this pest of the orchard may be kept from doing his destructive tive work one of the best preventives to keep the moth from laying eggs for the peach tree bore Is to draw away earth in the fall down to the crown of the roots and coat the stem to one toot above ground with a thick coat of alln seed oil and white lead without any turpentine at all but even when this Is done there will be found occasional borers therefore now Is the time to look over the orchard and wherever a gummy exudation Is seen at the base of a tree the borer Is at work and should be cut out at once and all the damaged bark and gum removed re peat the examination late in summer and you can keep the orchard fairly tree from the borers the next thing in the bearing peach orchard will be the fight against the which cause the fruit to be wormy no amount of spraying will do much for this sucker for he Is not eating the poison the only way to fight him to have a broad apparatus like an in averted umbrella made with a light frame covered with cotton cloth silt on one side admits it round the tree and then a jarring of the tree will cause the bitten fruit and the bugs to tall into the receptacle the cur eullo will not attempt to fly but will feign death then turn the con tents into a pan of water on which some kerosene has been poured to bill the insects this jarring must be kept up at intervals until the fruit Is more than halt grown if you want to avoid wormy peaches jarring off the bitten fruit will only make the re bainder bettel and the crop will not be reduced for the trees usually over bear