Show DR GLEANINGS CONTROL PEACH PEACHTREE PEACHTREE PEACHTREE TREE NUISANCE popularly has been found called li tic p c benzene c-benzene effective In checking to sonic some extent the Inroads of ot the oriental per peach moth announce authorities at the theN N New w Jersey agricultural experiment station New Brunswick This makes es this chemical of double value valne to peach growers glO who have ha been using It for a number of years to control tree peach borers Practically the same operation Is adequate for both hoth the oriental peach moth and the horer l The le practice In use 1 by peach growers grow ers for controlling the borer Is to roll 1011 the ground around the base of or the tree so as to remove weeds and trash Then the crystals are ure placed on the ground In a continuous equal rl ring about two Inches from the hark bark To prevent pre Injury care Is 1 used to tee ee that they do not touch the hark harl at Rt an any point Next a mound of earth from 4 to G Inches high Is placed on top of the crystals around the lie tree and firmed with the foot or the back backof of a n shovel JUKI the right amount of or chemical is used to kill the Insects I without harming the trees Doses of three-fourths three to one ounce per peachtree peach peachtree tree six years old or more kills 00 to per cent of the borers and produces pro duces little or no Injury In the aver- aver ago commercial orchard On trees three to five lave years ears old the dose lose Is one-half one ounce and mounds are ure allowed al allowed allowed al- al lowed to remain for three weeks With older trees the mounds are nee safely left all nil winter and removed the following spring B Uy By a slight modification In the procedure procedure pro pro- the ranks s of the destructive oriental reach peach moth also are reduced according to Dr T. T J J. Headlee entomologist entomologist ento ento- molo at the e. e experiment station The only change Is to mound the dIrton dirt dirton dirton on the p-c-benzene p about 8 S to 12 Inches instead of only 4 or G. G It has been found that this permits the fumes to reach rench larvae larae of the moth many of ot which hibernate near the base of the tree or on the trunk |