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2. Late fall plowing should occasionally be practiced, especially if 

 the canker-worm or other insect which winters in the ground has been 

 abundant. 



3. Dig about the roots in the fall, after having cleared the surface 

 under the trees of rubbish. 



4. Mix leached ashes or slacked lime with the mulch to be applied 

 immediately around the trunk ; lay a few boards on the ground, etc. 



3 a. — Pruning and Cleaning. 



1. Cut off the small branches and twigs affected, or having eggs on 

 them, and burn them ; also burn other trimmings. 



2. Dislodge and destroy. 



1 a. By jarring. 



2 a. By gathering. 



3. Pick off and destroy, especially during the winter, cocoons, 

 pupa?, etc. 



4. Rub the trunk and larger branches occasionally with soap or 

 other substance obnoxious to the borers, etc. 



5. Scrape the bark and rub with a rough brush. 



4 a. — Gathering and Preserving the Fruit. 



1. Gather and destroy or feed to stock, all the fruit that drops to 

 the ground before maturity; or that will fall before ripe with mod- 

 erate jarring. 



2. Where this cannot be done, turn hogs or sheep into the orchard, 

 and allow them to eat the fallen fruit. 



3. Watch for and destroy the perfect insects which escape after the 

 the fruit is housed, especially the codling-moths. 



II. OTHER GENERAL REMEDIES. 



1. Protect and multiply insect-eating birds. 



2. Encourage the raising of domestic fowls. 



3. Teach children to distinguish injurious species, and employ 

 them in gathering them and trapping them. 



4. Encourage the rearing and transportation of parasitic species. 



III. SPECIAL REMEDIES. 



Such as the various topcal applications, &c. 



You can take hold of the subject, and perfect a plan of operations 

 somewhat similar to that proposed, varied and changed to adapt it to 

 what you, by experience, know to be true in reference to horticultural 

 operations. All may not agree as to any one point, but the opinion 

 of the majority can be ascertained, and this is not apt to be far wrong. 

 If you cannot agree among yourselves, then, as a matter of course, 

 there is but little hope of obtaining general co-operation. 



In order to be more specific and directly practical. I suggest that 



