Show TW PRESERVE THE PEACH TREES may not yet be too late for effect live warfare against the borer its it habit habits the borer pest kills leach each trem in the city lot oftener than anywhere else elo became the ile town man min as a rule knows nothing of grief ahead until the trw tree la in ready to topple over in a wind rotten nt at the ground abee ashes end and wrappers rappers have been devised to control the peach tree borer but leonard claseman of the missouri ag ri cultural college says the best way ay ie Is to swat it with your band hand the best time be he says Is some time thia this fall a good point to keci keel in the a ern tm cry ory the gum ot OL the peach tree down bear near the ground Is I 1 an unmistakable warning that the borer la in getting busy mr ar haseman says the search er can easily detect the presence pretence ot of the borer ae as a rule by the masses of peach gum juet just at the surface ot of the ground the borr boner has tunneled through agh th the e bark and baa has commenced to feed upon the live bark and aap map wood sap flow a through the hole bole in the bark and coagulates in the air forming the eo so called peach bum hum the remedy almost suggests itself dig aitay an ay the masses of gum and find the entrance to the tunnel I 1 ollow the tunnel with as little damage to the tree as possible and smash the borer on eight it la Is a small milky white gru grub blike like caterpillar moet most of them are about half an inch in length 1 in the fall being less than halt half grown when ben winter inter seta sets in the peach reach tree borer in the adult stage Is to a moth the moth appears i from early july to the middle of au gust and closely resembles a having clear wings and yellow and black bands about the body the moth hunts up a poach peach tree and depo pitR eggs about the base the young bor er or caterpillars soon develop and at once begin to tunnel into the bark and wood of the tree here they feed and grow on small trees often a single borer will completely girdle a trunk if not put out of business before it matures often dozens or more will attack a larger tree the borers continue their tunnelle tunnel ln tir all fall then they go below the sur face of the ground to establish them selves for the winter BENEFIT OF UNITED ACTION central organizations can do much to any town or community there teems seems to be strong vw for organizations where delegates for or the various municipalities may meet and by comparison of notes determine where mistakes have been made and the proper method of procedure says the los angeles times these meetings alo stimulate activity where indifference or municipal lethar lethargy are responsible for lack of progress a in many eastern states great good has been accomplished through state federations new jersey was the first state in the union to enact a model shade tree law dy by the act of 1893 it provided for the planting and find care of hade shade trees on the highways of the municipalities pali ties of the state while the in crease in the number of shade treo tree commissions during the laet last few years hai has hown shown the growth ol 01 interest in the subject the actual results accod polished by the shade tree commissions hare have oot not been uniformly successful success fal abe various tree board boards have ben be n working in an independent way and so the maximum tor for the good of the state have not been efured secured it had been felt for some time that thep ther ought to be ome some ordination coordination co of interests sarg the carlone var lotia tree commissio s in order that tb the adequacy of present law laws might bo be itu stu died the general questions of polica considered and help extended to new ly fornies shade tree commissions an and d efforts made to extend the movement mo ement for tle planting and preservation of hade tree trees in the state new now jersey now hai has a very effect lyp hade shade tree tre fed federation emdon how to cere care for tree trees with trees as with all other urine living things both animate and inanimate it la 6 far easier to form than to defor reform ea As the twig Is 1 bent so 10 the tree in clines ie Is all of truth and none of cr er too little attention Is paid to the training of street trees defore before the w winter inter season sets in they should be der deprived rived of top heaviness so that when the soil becomes softened by winter rains the excessive top will not catch enough wind to blow the trees over heavy tops that receive 1 the full force of the winds are apt to be torn or suffer splits aside from the langer danger of blowing ov r ard all these abe evils may be visited epou a e single tree |