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Show DIG OUT PEACH TREE BORERS n Most Cases Pests Can Be Removed With Sharp Knife by Following Follow-ing Their Tunnels. "You may think that, because your peach tree looks vigorous, there are no borers In the trunk near or just below be-low the surface of the soil," warns D. O. Mooring, extension horticulturist at Oklahoma A. and M. college. "Now Is a good time to examine your trees and if borers are present, as most likely they are, remove them. Dig the oil away, thus leaving a cavity around the base of the tree, for as a rule there will be an exudation of gum (jelly) from the trunk which will Indicate In-dicate the presence of borers. In most cases you can cut them out with a heavy sharp knife by following their tunnels. Because you do not find them at first, do not give up and conclude con-clude that they are not there. Where they have bored deeply Into the wood a flexible wire may be used to gouge and kill .'N?in as Indicated by bug juice on the end of the wire. Leave the cavity around the trees during thG winter." |