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Wood-lice. 



If they are so abundant as to be easily reached, pour 

 boiling hot water on them and into their haunts. 



They have a great partiality for potatoes, and by 

 scattering these around they will be attracted to them, 

 when the hot water can be vigorously used. 



Flower-pots filled with hay have been used, and with 

 such good success that thousands have been killed. 



The pots are laid on their sides, and once a day the 

 hay is lifted out of the pots ; then shoot the wood-lice 

 into a pail of hot water. 



Borer and Bark-louse. 



Apply soft-soap and water to all fruit-tress in the 

 first week ol June. It not only exterminates the sap- 

 pers (bark-lice) but banishes the miners (borers). 



Scrape the trees early in spring ; apply the soft-soaj 

 first ol June, and again the first of July, and do no 1 , 

 forget to adjust the cloth bands by the last of June. 



Bark-louse. 



This may be destroyed in spring, just after hatching, 

 by the application of alkaline washes, such as lye, soap- 

 suds, or whitewash. 



The eggs under the scales may be killed during win 

 ter by washing or syringing the trees with coal-oil di- 

 luted with three parts of water. 



Carbonic acid gas, applied by the use of any vapor- 



