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Keeping wood ashes about the base of the trees is considered 

 by some extensive growers to be an effective treatment. The 

 surest treatment is to kill the borers every spring and fall with 

 a flexible wire inserted in their burrows or to remove them with 

 a knife. 



After the borers are dug out in the spring in May, mound six 

 inches high or more with fine earth, packing it tightly against 

 the base of the tree. This compels the moths to lay their eggs 

 on the bark above the top of the mound. About the first of 

 August carefully examine the trunk by removing a little earth at 

 the top of the mound where the borers, if any, may be easily 

 found. Eemove them with the knife. A second search should 

 be made in October and a third one during the following May. 

 If the earth is left at its usual level without mounding, the eggs 

 are deposited so near the roots tliat the borers ca'n easily work 

 downAvard to where it will be diflicult to find them. 



BUD MOTH. 



{Tmetocera ocellana Schif.) 



Sometimes very destructive to the peach. The caterpillars 

 bore into the buds and even into the wood beneath. Treatment 

 same as recommended on page 409. 



CURCULIO. 



The plum curculio is sometimes a serious pest in the peach 

 orchard. Remedies for this insect are discussed under " Plum 

 curculio " on page 455. 



FEUIT-BARK BEETLE. 



(Scolytus rugulosus Ratz.) 



Description. — The adult insects are black, somewhat cylin- 

 drical beetles about one-tenth of an inch long and about one- 

 third as broad. They appear early in the spring and bore small 

 round holes through the bark to the sap wood. The eggs are 

 laid beneath the bark and the grubs feed on the sap wood, mak- 



