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Bulletin 192. 



treated with Stedman's wire cage were infested with borers 

 and there were nearly twice as many borers in the caged trees 

 as in the same number of 



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untreated trees only a few feet 

 distant. AYe had hoped much 

 from tliis arrangement of tlie 

 wire cage protector, but it is 

 another case of misplaced con- 

 fidence. We are unable to get 

 the slightest practical evidence 

 in favor of these wire cao:es as a 

 protection against the peach- 

 tree borer. In our experience 

 they are worse than no treatment 

 of anv kind, and we doubt if a 

 wire cage can be practically ap- 

 plied in such a way as to keep 

 the peach-tree borer out of trees 

 in Xew York. 



As the table shows, Stedmaii's 

 til in wooden immppers or jyrotect- 

 ors (see figure 53) were quite effective in keeping out the borers ; 

 while nearly a third of the treated trees contained borers, only a 

 single borer was found in each tree. But they were no more 

 effective than the less costly and more readily obtainable tarred 

 paper protector that we used in 1894-1897 (see Bulletin 176, p. 10). 

 We were not favorably impressed witli these wooden wrappers and 

 would use the cheaper paper wrapper instead in Xew York. Many 

 millipedes and wireworms had gathered inside about the bases of 

 our trees, and hundreds of the egg-sacs of spiders were attached to 

 the inner surface of the wrappers. A Kansas fruit grower also 

 states (Tlural New Yorker, Oct. 27th, 1900, p. 718) : 



" For several years we used in our GO acres of young orchard the 

 wood-veneer wrappers to protect the trees from rabbits. But we 

 found them objectionable for several reasons. Under the influence 

 of the weather they warp and twist, curl and split, so it is impracti- 

 cable to remove a large numl^er in Spring and replace them in the 



Stedman's wooden icrapper ready to 

 be j.ut around the, tree. 



