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toes, we believe the whole thing to be a failure, and that the old 

 method of applying printer's ink still the best. One member of 

 your Committee protects a thousand trees every year with this 

 "grub ink" so effectually that only worms enough are left to keep 

 the seed good, and at an expense, reckoning both labor and ma- 

 terial, of only about four cents to a tree annually. This pro- 

 tection would be still more effectual were it not that many of the 

 orchards in the immediate neighborhood are not protected at all. 

 The best method is to commence in good season in the fall, • 

 about October first, and tack tightly narrow strips of tarred pa- 

 per, some five or six inches wide, around the tree just below the 

 limbs ; upon this apply the ink (when warm in the middle of the 

 day) a good coat at first, afterwards a mere touching" will answer; 

 apply once or twice a week till cold weather sets in, and should 

 there be a long continued warm spell in winter, an application or 

 two might be well. Commence in the spring as soon as the 

 frost is out four or five inches, and continue as long as the grubs 

 run, generally about a month. Remove the bandages every 

 spring. Procure a good article and follow it up carefully for one 

 or two years and ver}^ few worms v/ill be left. 



For destroying the caterpillar, commence when they are quite 

 small ; take them when they are 'at home, generally early in the 

 morning, or by ten or eleven o'clock in the forenoon. The 

 "handiest" way to kill them is the best, though a stiff, conical 

 brush attatched to a pole is very convenient. If all would take 

 hold in earnest, these pests might easily be got rid of, as they 

 are nmch more controlable than the canker worm. The apple 

 tree borer at times is troublesome, but can easily be destroyed. 

 The curculio appears at times as though determined to destroy 

 al! our fruit ; but one thing is certain, they are not more plenty 

 than they were twenty years ago, and with the destruction of 

 cur plums and many of our sweet cherries they appear to be par 



