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and early summer before the fruit turns down. These treatments wil] 

 also protect the tree from the canker worm and other leaf eating pests. 



For the plum or peach curculio no application that has yet been 

 tried has given much satisfaction. Clean culture, the careful gathering 

 and destroying of the fallen fruit, trapping very early in the spring by 

 means of cobs, pieces of bark, chips and the like, placed around the base 

 of the tree and the jarring process are, as yet, the only reliable mean< 

 of keeping this great enemy of the stone fruits in check. 



All false caterpillars or slug worms which gnaw off the green tissue 

 or perforate the leaves of roses, currant bushes and strawberry plants 

 are quickly killed by a tea made by steeping an ounce of white hellebore 

 in three gallons of water and applying in a fine spray. This is most 

 effective when put on late in the afternoon or in the evening. 



The leaf folder and large caterpillars that attack grape vines can be 

 removed by hand picking with comparatively little labor. The tiny 

 'eaf-hoppers or "thrips," as they are often incorrectly called, which are 

 so injurious to the foliage, can be killed by spraying with rather weak 

 kerosene emulsion or with pyrethrum powder in water at the rate of one 

 ounce of tlie former to three gallons of the latter. These insects are 

 greatly attracted to lights at night and myriads may be destroyed by 

 kindling bonfires or torches at various locations in the vineyard. 



For most other insect pests some especial treatment is required of 

 which the limits of this paper will not admit of description, but which 

 may be obtained from all professional entomologists and from many 

 works now^ on the market on the subject of the insects injurious to fruits 

 and garden products. 



A very complete and inexpensive little handbook on "Insecticides 

 and Spraying" lias recently been brought to my notice, which I would 

 recommend to all fruit growers. The price is only twenty cents and it 

 may be had from the author. Prof. H. E. Weed, Mont Vista Fruit Farm, 

 Griffin, Ga. 



