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as the sun approaches the horizon. The chips should be laid 

 around the trees as soon as the frost is out of the ground, for 

 more beetles will be caught under them during a few weeks 

 thus early in the season than throughout the rest of the year. 



KEEPIJfG IT IN CHECK BY TEE OFFER OF PREMIUMS. 



After visiting St, Joseph and vicinity, I passed into Ontario, 

 where I found the trees overloaded with fine unblemished 

 fruit. I found my friend, Mr. Wm. Saunders of London, also 

 much occupied with, and interested in, the Curculio question. 

 He was, in fact, carefully counting different lots of this insect 

 which had been received from different parts of the Dominion ; 

 for be it known, that the enterprising Fruit-Growers' Associa- 

 tion of Ontario, in its praiseworthy efforts to check the 

 increase of the Curculio, offered a cent jyer head for every one 

 which should be sent to our friend, who happens to be Secre- 

 tary of that body. What would you think, gentlemen, if the 

 Legislature of IlHnois, or if this society should offer an equally 

 liberal premium per capita for every little Turk captured ? 

 Wouldn't you set about capturing them in earnest, though ! 

 The Legislature might stand it, and I am not sure but that 

 some such inducement, held out by the State to its fruit-grow- 

 ing citizens, would pay, and prove the most effective way of 

 subduing the enemy. But the horticultural society that 

 should undertake it, Avould have to be pretty liberally endowed. 

 Just think of it ; ye who catch from three to five thousand 

 per day I The bugs would pay a good deal better than the 

 peaches. However, very fortunately for the Ontario Fruit- 

 Growers' Association, their good offer did not get noised 

 abroad as much as it might have been, and the little Turk 

 occurs in such comparatively small numbers, that up to the 

 time I left, only 10,731 had been received. 



JARRING BY MACHINERY. 



Of course there is no more expeditious way of jarring down 

 the Curculio than by the Hull Curculio-catcher. Yet I con- 

 fess that after extensive operations in many different parts of 



