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mound of ashes, leached or unleached, put 

 around the tree in the spring, sometimes 

 affords them sufficient protection. A wrapper 

 of brown paper previously saturated with 

 strong tobacco water, would doubtless prevent 

 the insect from depositing its eggs. 



The presence of the borer already in a tree, 

 is indicated by the dust, (resembling a spoon- 

 full or more of saw dust,) which he ejects 

 from his hole. If taken early, you may de- 

 stroy him with the point of a knife. When 

 he is farther in the wood, use a flexible barbed 

 wire, with which to extract him or punch 

 him to death. A good ear will be able to hear 

 the success of the latter operation. 



4. The Apple-worm. This insect frequent- 

 ly destroys or greatly injures more than one 

 half the entire crop of a tree. Thomas says 

 the best preventive is to allow swine to eat the 

 wormy fruit, as fast as it falls, thus destroying 

 the enclosed insects and preventing their 

 spread. A quart of salt sprinkled over the 

 ground under a large tree each year, will be 

 found to diminish the number of these insects, 

 and add also to the health and productiveness 

 of the tree. In all your warfare with insects, do 

 not forget that a prompt, early movement is 

 nine tenths of the victory. 



