Show FIGHTING PEACH TREE PEST para di 0 treatment affords meant means of ridding orchards of harmful borer I 1 the results of what Is keown own as the pars para treatment tor for the eradication of the peachtree peach tree borer lead experts of the united states department part ment of agriculture to believe that a practical means has finally been found of ridding orchard of this disastrously destructive pest previously the only effective method of fighting the borer was by removing the soil around the base bage ba ge of the tree and dl digging the grubs grabs out of their galleries a with a knife tt ft la Is estimated that the borer had done damage a year and that a year has been spent in fighting them the para method was first used extensively by orchard ests in 1919 it consists in sprinkling fine crystals of insecticide on the soil thrond the base of the infected tree end and fevering with earth to hold the gas the substance to Is highly volatile and ferms a gas when the soil Is between 75 and 80 degrees fahrenheit this gas Is I 1 five times heavier than air and sinks down through the soil it Is highly effective against the borer and a pound of the insecticide costing not more than 25 cents Is sufficient for or eight to ten trees the labor Is scarcely arcely fc one third of that formerly required the saving therefore Is great in 1920 the para pro process cesis was used extensively in the georgia peach belt some come local localities ldes buying as high as pounds and large individual growers as high as two tons each growers declare that it Is one of the greatest accomplish tn in the history of the department comparable Lom parable to the self boiled idine treatment for control of erwa tot ot and scab ot of the peach |