INJURIOUS INSECTS. 



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many who did put the bauds in place, neglected to examine 

 them and kill the worms, that this plan justly lost favor. A 

 better method is to turn hogs and sheep into the orchard. They 

 will eat the major half of the affected fruit. By 

 discreet thinning, using a forked stick, we can 

 give the hogs nearly all the wormy fruit, and 

 the increased size of the remaining fruit will 

 pay for the thinning. The best way is to sprinkle 

 all bearing trees with the arsenites two weeks 

 after the trees bloom, and 

 then two and four weeks 

 later. Enough poison lodges 

 on the apples to kill the 

 worms; but it is all washed 

 off long before the fruit is 

 fit to use. Three years' trial 

 proves this remedy most ex- 

 cellent. I use one pound of 

 London purple to one hun- 

 dred gallons of water ; draw 

 it through the orchard in an open barrel with a float to pre- 

 vent slopping, and distribute by means of Whitman's Fountain 

 Pump. The practice of this method makes it less necessary to 

 place close wire screens over the cellar windows in May, June, 

 and July. Fires, or bottles of sweetened water, or vessels of 

 sour milk, so often recommended to destroy these insects, will 

 do no good whatever. 



Old Apple-tree Borer. Saperda Candida, Fab. Family 

 Cerambycidce. Order, Colcoptera. This pest, which has been 

 so long in our country, is widely distributed in our State. 

 Very few, if any, orchards are exempt from its attacks. 

 Not that it always, or generally, totally destroys the trees; 

 still, those suffering from its attacks are always lessened in 

 vitality, and it not unfrequently happens that the trunks 

 become so riddled with their tunnels that the tree becomes a 

 prey to the hard winds, which are sure to come with each re- 

 turning year. 



FIG. 24. Whitman's Fountain Pump. 



