376 REMEDIES. 



REMEDY XO. 20. 



In orchards, vineyards, vegetable gardens, etc., grasses, 

 weeds, and rubbish of every kind, including fallen leaves, 

 should be carefully gathered off of the ground from around 

 fences and buildings and burned earh' in the Fall, thus depriv- 

 ing the insects of a shelter wherein to hibernate ; and the 

 ground should be kept entirely clean of weeds, such as purs- 

 lane, etc., in the Spring and Summer seasons. All grasses 

 and weeds growing on the banks of sloughs, water ditches, etc., 

 in or around orchards, vineyards, etc., should be burned, or 

 other^dse destroyed. 



See Remedy No. 32, A and B. 



REMEDY NO. 21. 



A smooth bark, free from moss, etc., on fruit trees, grape- 

 vines, etc., is an imperative necessity in a warfare against 

 insect pests. This can be effected by scraping and ueing alka- 

 line washes, such as Nos. 11, 12 or 13, when the tree is dor- 

 mant ; or Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 in Summer. In all cases the 

 scrapings should be burned. 



Read Remedies Nos. 35, 123 and 124 carefully. 



REMEDY NO. 22. 



Early in the month of October wrap a band of thick paper 

 (the thickness of medium building paper), from six to eight 

 inches wide, around the base of the trunk of the tree close to 

 the ground, and fasten by a piece of baling rope passed around 

 about the center of the band ; gather or mound the earth 

 around the band below the rope. This is to prevent the wing- 

 less female from depositing her eggs on the tree, under or 

 below the band. Take some coal tar and spread on the upper 

 part of the band, above the rope — two inches wide is suffi- 

 cient. A little castor oil mixed in the tar will prevent it from 

 hardening as rapidily as if only tar is used. The tar should 



