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stove coal, as mentioned in the other connection, proves to fill its place; an6 

 there is no danger of their eating too much ashes or salt. Running vrater ought 

 always, if possible, to pass through their pasture; and when not possible fresh 

 water should be pumped daily for tlieir use, as well as for aU other stock, even 

 to the chickens. 



1. CODLING MOTH, Remedy.— Dr. Hull, a leading horticulturist of 

 Illinois, says that his lime remedy for the codling moth has proved completely 

 effectual. The freshly slacked lime is thrown into the trees when the dew is on, 

 or just after a rain, and after the fruit is set. A dipper or a large spoon may be 

 used; but best of all, is a bellows made for the purpose (the author would say, 

 with a long nose or nozzle to reach well up into the trees). The insects will not 

 go where the lime is scattered; he says, " they go away." 



Remarks. — The author has not a doubt but what the lime will prove effec- 

 tive, for the item given in his first recipe book, for destroying the curculio on 

 plum trees, wherein sulphur and gunpowder with the lime was effectual; but it 

 seems that lime alone does equally well, and is much less expensive. " Codling ' 

 means an immature or small appl';, but so far as the moth is concerned, it is 

 appUed to plums or any other fruit. But the curculio, a species of weevil, is 

 most destructive to the plum, as you will see by referring to them. 



2. Codling Moth Effectually Disposed of.— A writer who signs 

 himself " H," of Fenton, Mich., sends a plan to the Detroit Tribune, which he 

 says effectually disposes of the codling moth. He says: " I take a piece of old 

 woolen cloth, 5 or 6 inches wide, and long enough to go around the apple tree 

 and lap an inch or two, and place this around the tree midway between the 

 lower branches and the ground, and fasten it there with a tack driven in just 

 far enough to hold. The moth will go under this cloth and deposit her egg, 

 which matures in 13 days. Every 10 days I go through the orchard, draw the 

 tacks carefully, unwind the cloth and mash every worm and moth I find, some- 

 times as many as 40 under a single cloth. This followed up will utterly 

 destroy them." 



Remarks. — It is said that the most successful fruit growers, east and west, 

 have decided that there is no better remedy for the codling moth than to pasture 

 liogs in the orchard to eat the wormy apples and the moths or worms therein. 

 Chickens running in the orchard are also very destructive to moths, by eating 

 all the worms or bugs they see; and I have seen it stated that 2 or 3 pigs put 

 into a pen of one length of boards around apple, peach, or plum trees will 

 destroy all these depredators. (See Borers, Remedy for, Curculio on Plums, 

 Description of and how get rid of them, next below.) 



Borers in Peach and Apple Trees, Remedy for, and for Bark 

 Lice on the Trees.— Mr. M. B. Batchman, of Ohio (residence not given), 

 writing to the Fimit Recorder, of Palmyra, N. Y., gives the following valuable 

 remedy to prevent the borers getting into the peach and apple trees. He says: 

 •' Take a tight barrel and put in 4 or 5 gallons of soft-soap with as much hot 

 water to thin it, then stir in 1 pt. of crude carbolic acid and let stand over night, 

 or longer, to combine. Then add 12 gallons of rain-water, and stir well; apply 



