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can return. If we "catch 'em and kill 'em," they never 

 have a resurrection. 



Near neighbors, when insects or depredators of any kind 

 are numerous, should all labor in concert to exterminate 

 noxious invaders. So long as one or two persons, having 

 orchards, neglect to destroy depredators on their ground, 

 vigilant pomologists may put forth their efforts in vain to 

 save their fruit from the ravages of the curculio and cater- 

 pillars. At Vineland, New Jersey, all the inhabitants of 

 the town, of 12,000 people, where they have heretofore pro- 

 duced the finest fruit in the country, rely on no other rem- 

 edy than to "catch 'em and kill 'em." We may depend 

 on the efficacy of hellebore to destroy the Currant-worms ; 

 but as yet, no reliable means have been found to keep the 

 hordes of insects from destroying the leaves, the blossoms, 

 and the fruit of cherry-trees, plum, peach, and apple trees, 

 except this "catch 'em and kill 'em." Every pomologist 

 should instruct those in his employ to keep a watchful eye 

 for all manner of depredators, and to "catch 'em and kill 

 'em" as quickly as they would dispatch a rattlesnake. The 

 price of fruit is unremitting vigilance and war to the knife, 

 with the knife to the hilt. Numerous other modes have 

 been strongly recommended, such as covering the trees 

 with lime-wash or tobacco-water, smoking the trees daily, 

 placing putrid substances under them, spading-in the rising 

 curculios, cutting canals under the trees to fill with water, 

 laying brick pavements, making mortar floors, and other 

 modes hard to apply, and of little or no efficiency. 



Exterminating Moths, Millers, Flies. A large proportion 

 of insect enemies originate from millers or flies, many of 

 which are seen on the wing at evening, or at any time at 

 night. Most persons understand how common it is for mil- 

 lers to fly round about a lighted lamp, and frequently dart 

 directly into the flame. We have often known doves and 



