410 REMEDIES. 



REMEDY NO. 94. 



Placing Stockholm tar on the nose and inside the nostrils, 

 will prevent the bot-fly from depositing her egg or larva in the 

 nose of the sheep. 



REMEDY NO. 95. 



Place Stockholm tar in the bottom of a trough to the depth 

 of one inch, and cover with salt. In this way the tar gets 

 on the nose and into the nostrils while the sheep is gathering 

 the salt. 



REMEDY NO. 9(;. 



Use No. o or 7, one pound of the mixture to each gallon of 

 water used, and add one gallon of No. 9 to each gallon of the 

 solution used. See Remedv No. 52. 



REMEDY NO. 97. 



In all cases where caterpillars congregate on a branch an 

 effective remedy is to cut off the liranch and destroy the cater- 

 pillars by burning or otherwise. 



REMEDY NO. 98. 



A. — Mounding. "In the Si)ring, before the moth emerges 

 (April), a bank of dirt about one foot deep is thrown around 

 the tree and pressed firmly about the trunk. Each subsequent 

 Spring a little niore earth is placed on the mound and })ressed 

 around the trunk as before. Mr. I^. Pullen, of Centralia, Illi- 

 nois, states that tiny sliduld not be mounded till after they are 

 four years old, but examine them in April and September of 

 each year previous to that age, and with a knife destroy all 

 borers that can be foinid. This has been found an excellent 

 ])revention, but where the trees are already suffering from 



