REMEDIES. 385 



REMEDY NO. 37. 



In all cases for preventing the spread of borers in fruit, orna- 

 mental or forest trees, the coating of the trunk and larger limbs 

 with soft soap, common bar soap, or whale oil soap and sul- 

 phur, will prevent the female from depositing her eggs on the 

 parts thus treated. Two pounds of soap to each gallon of 

 water used ; apply with a brush. 



Trees infested with the larvae or grubs of borers, the bur- 

 rows should be searched for, and when found a wire should be 

 forced into the burrow, and in this way destroy the larva or 

 grub. 



Wounds or sunburned patches on the bark of trees should 

 be dressed with some of the above soaps as soon as noticed. 



Note. — Some persons cut out the grubs with a knife ; such 

 a method is not safe for the tree. 



See No. 60, for borers in branches. 



REMEDY NO. 38. 



A. — Spread a sheet or cloth under the tree at night, when 

 the beetles are feeding ; by shaking the tree the beetles will 

 fall off, and can then be gathered off of the sheet or cloth and 

 destroyed. Some assert that early morning is the best time, 

 as the beetles are not inclined so much to fly. See Remedy 

 No. 102. 



B. — For such beetles as feed upon the foliage in daytime, 

 the spreading of the sheet under the tree and shaking should 

 either be done after sunrise, or about noon. If the beetles in 

 either instance are numerous, dipping the sheet in coal oil will 

 destroy such beetles as may fall upon it. 



REMEDY NO. 39. 



Early in the Fall season dig a trench around the tree, uncov- 

 ering the roots : in the trench put two or three shovelfuls of 

 new lime if the tree is large, and less in proportion to smaller 



