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saving fruit and fruit-trees from the ravages of such depre- 

 dators? Well-conduc,ted experiments have been made so 

 frequently, to repel insects, worms, and caterpillars, that it 

 is safe to assume that fruit of nearly every kind must be 

 saved, while growing, by active vigilance on the part of po- 

 mologists. New depredators have been visiting our fruit- 

 trees every season for a number of years past ; and for years 

 to come others, now unknown, will probably appear. There 

 may be some remedy discovered to head them off ; but the 

 most reliable one of all will be to " catch 'em and kill 'em." 

 It would seem, in many instances, as if the caterpillars, the 

 Army-worm, the Canker-worm, and numerous other depre- 

 dators that subsist on the leaves of apple-trees, would cut 

 off the entire apple-crop, if we do not " catch 'em and kill 

 'em." The Tent-caterpillar, in many instances, is " doing 

 his level best" to devour every leaf on apple and cherry 

 trees. There is no possible way to prevent their ravages, 

 unless we " catch 'em and kill 'em." Entomologists may pen 

 interesting paragraphs about the origin, hibernation, met- 

 amorphoses, and the habits of noxious insects and worms, 

 and suggest nostrums to repel them and check their rav- 

 ages ; but, after all that may be said or written, if we save 

 our trees and fruit, in most instances we must " catch 'em 

 and kill 'em." Apple-tree Borers, Peach-tree Borers, Cur- 

 rant Borers, Pear-tree Borers, and borers for almost every 

 tree and plant that dares to grow, are incessantly working 

 their gouge-shaped augers night and day. Hence, the only 

 watch-word should be: "Catch 'em and kill 'em." All 

 through the growing season, every employe on the prem- 

 ises should be instructed, wherever he sees a noxious insect 

 at work, to drop all other employment, and " catch 'em and 

 kill 'em." We have tried the " shoo-fly " remedy quite too 

 long, without any satisfactory results. If we fray them 

 away, they are back to their work of devastation before we 



