4O INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FRUIT. 



trees of this fruit stand where the hogs and poultry have free access. Form neigh- 

 borhood associations fruit-growers' clubs, where all shall do the same thing. Do 

 this faithfully a single year, and the benefit will be so apparent, in more and better 

 fruit, that it will be done the next year as a matter of course, and every succeeding 

 year the labor will be less and the benefit greater. Don't stop because one surly 

 fellow will not join you, or because other neighborhoods will not do it. If there 

 should be but one such fruit-growers' club in a county or state, the members will have 

 the more labor, of course, but there will be the greater profit. If your neighbors will 

 not join you, then fight the battle alone. Show them it can be done ; let them see 

 the fruits, and shame them. 



Plant Plum, Apricot, and Nectarine trees plant orchards of Apple, Pear, and 

 Peach trees. Have fruits so plenty, and of such valuable sorts, as not only to pay 

 the expenses of the extra labor but leave a handsome profit, after using all you want 

 of the best for yourself and family. If you have not destroyed all the Curculios when 

 grubs, or if your neighbors have not joined you, and they come upon your young 

 fruits, then at them -with the canvas. If this is properly managed your fruit can be brought 

 to full maturity as certainly as if there were no Curculio. 



If your trees are young the first, second,, or third crop a canvas six feet 

 square will answer well, and you can manage it alone. The palm, or rather the heel 

 of the hand, will do the jarring. Some of the Turks will come down with the first 

 blow, more with the second, and but few after the third. This bringing down the 

 Curculio is to be done with a blow a sudden jar not a shake. Though the wind 

 shakes a tree, the Curculio does not stop work on that account, but a jar alarms her 

 instantly. 



Fig. 7 of this Plate indicates the position of the Curculio on a Plum under the 

 alarm of the first blow ; her proboscis is withdrawn at once, the claws cease to hold 

 fast, the limbs are drawn up, and the fore legs doubled at the knees, and one placed 

 on each side of the proboscis. Another jar, and she falls to the ground, and there, 

 among the grass and dead buds, as seen at Fig. 8, feigns death an instinct of self- 

 preservation common to insect life. Children find collections of brilliant little 

 beetles, looking like beads, and they string them with needle and thread. The 

 beetles cannot " play possum " long after such an operation, and the beads are found 

 to have legs. The travelling lady-bug stops if you touch her. A little " bouncing 



