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®tove before spring. If they are put on the brush-heap they should 

 by no means be allowed to lie till the following summer, but ought to 

 be burned before the first of April. Careful inspection at this season 

 may show on apple trees which have been infested with plant lice 

 many very small, shining, black, oval eggs close to the buds near the 

 tips of the twigs. It is hard to kill these eggs, but if there is any 

 trimming to be done these twigs may be cut off and burned before 

 spring, and this will lessen the insects for next year. The egg belts 

 of the tent caterpillar are more readily seen, and it pays certainly to 

 <;ut them from medium-sized trees. Earning over infested land in 

 winter will destroy the eggs of many grasshoppers and other insects 

 ■which lay their eggs in the leafy tissue or on the stems of grass or 

 weeds. Some insects which infest shade-trees, like the bagworm 

 ^nd the vaporer moth, hibernate in the egg state. The bagworm can 

 be easily cut off of the tree, especially the Arbor Vitte, which is very 

 subject to their injuries, while in cities and towns the egg masses 

 of the vaporer moth are found on fences, tree-boxes and any other 

 place where a little shelter is afforded, and since each mass contains 

 more than a hundred eggs, every one gathered and burned helj^ to 

 ilimit the injury from caterpillars the next year. — Garden and Forest. 



BOILING WATER FOR YELLOWS. 



An Early Crawford peach tree in the western part of Rochester, 

 !Sr. Y., says the Democrat and Chronicle, has borne three bushels of 

 ■fine fruit. Two years ago the tree was smitten with the "yellows," and 

 the owner thought it was doomed, but following the advice of a friend 

 who had tried the remedy, he poured boiling water on the trunk and 

 Tjranches and threw it on the upper limbs, repeating the operation four 

 or five times at intervals of five or six days. New growth soon started, 

 and ^the tree was shortly covered with green and healthy foliage. — 

 ^Country Gentleman. 



EFFECTIVE PEACH SPRAYING. 



Fiom observation of the past few years, Director A. T. Neale, of 

 the Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station, recommends the fol- 

 lowing plan in the treatment of peach orchards. 1. Spraying heavily 

 with Bordeaux mixture just before the blossoms open. 2. When the 

 fruit has set, spray again, to which add Paris green at the rate of 3 oz. 

 to the bbl. 3, When the fruit begins to color, spray with the copper 

 iicetate solution, 8 oz. to the bbl. 4. Repeat this in from one to two 



