Roosevelt Standard | 1943-06-17 | Page 6 | Curculio Threatens 1943 Peach Crop

Threatens 1943 Peach Crop Peaches are in grave danger of being destroyed by the if prompt and decisive control measures are not says Clyde F. associate entomologist of the state experiment station at North Carolina State He reports that about ten times as many beetles are being found this year as compared with 1942 and that growers will have more wormy peaches at harvest time unless they use every possible means of controlling the Dr Smith makes four suggestions for controlling the beetles and he says that all four methods should be collect and destroy as many adult as possible by jarring the fol-j low a proper spray program pick up and destroy all cultivate under the spread of the as soon as wormy peaches cease to