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Show FIGHTING PEACH TREE BORER How This Pest of the Orchard Maj Ba Kept from Doing His Destructive De-structive Work. Ono of tho best preventives to keep the moth from laying eggs for the peach tree boro Ib to draw away the earth In tho fall down to tho crown ol the roots nnd coat tho stem to ono foot nbovo ground with a thick coat of linseed lin-seed oil nnd white lend, without any turpentine nt nil. But even when thlt Is dono thero will bo found occasional borers. Therefore, now Is tho tlmo to look ovor tho orchard, und whorover n gummy exudation Is seen nt the base of a treo the borer Is at work and should bo cut out at once nnd all the damaged bark and gum removed. Repeat Re-peat tho examination lato In summer and you enn keep tho orchnrd fairly free from tho borors. Tho noxt thing In tho bearing pouch orchard will bo the fight agninBt tho curcullo which cause tho fruit to bo wormy. No amount of spraying will do much for this sucker, for ho Is not eating tho poison. The only wny to fight him Is to have n broad apparatus llko on Inverted In-verted umbrelln made with a light frame coverod with cotton cloth. A slit on ono sldo admits It round tho treo, nnd then n Jarring of tho treo will causo tho bltton fruit nnd the bugs to fall Into tho roceptnelo; the curcullo will not attempt to fly, but will feign death. Then turn tho con tonts Into n pan of wntor on which somo koroseno has been poured, to kill tho InBocts. This Jarring must bo kept up at Intervals until tho fruit Is moro than half grown If you want to nvold wormy peaches. Jarring oft tho bltton fruit will only muko tho ro malndor hotter nnd tho crop will not bo reduced, for tho trees usually over-bear. |
