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Show HARM BY BLACKBERRY BORER Spraying Is of No Avail Cutting and Burning at Time of Regular Pruning Is Favored. The blackberry cane borer has been seriously troublesome in many parts of the country recently, killing the canes and thus ruining the chances of the crop. No spraying is of any use, but I find cutting and burning does the trick, says a writer in an exchange. There are two ways of doing this work. One is to look for, cut off and burn all the swelled parts of the blackberry black-berry canes' at the time of the regular regu-lar winter or early spring pruning. There is no mistaking these swellings, because they are fully double the diameter di-ameter of the cane itself. It is not necessary to bother ' with the whole cane just the swelled part with an inch or two above or below the swelling. swell-ing. The cut pieces may be easily carried in a basket. Where a very serious attack has occurred, and where other blackberries are growing in the neighborhood, I ave found it a good plan to cut off all the young shoots produced before the end of June, so as to destroy the young grubs in them. By that time all the adult beetles will have died, so the canes produced during July will be free from the borers. There is no use saving a "galled" cane, for it can't produce a decent stand of berries. The sooner it is burned the better. It is not necessary to burn the green shoots, because the borers, being footless, cannot can-not crawl to new canes, and are also unable to live on dead wood. |