S8 Oil the Fruit Curculio. 



these effectually protected. Unless this can be done, a 

 farmer should not suffer them to grow on his plantation. 

 He will derive no benefit from them ; and thev will fur- 

 nish a destructive vermin that will ruin his other fruits. 

 Cherry trees, nectai'ines, plumbs, apricots, &:c. should 

 therefore be planted in lanes and hard beaten yards^ [or 

 paved yards,] the common highways of all the stock of 

 the farm, and not beyond the range of the ordinary do- 

 mestic fowls. Orchards of apple trees, pear trees, peach 

 trees, &c. should all be in one enclosure. The pear 

 trees and peach trees may occupy corners of the whole 

 design, so as occasionally to be fenced oft'. In large 

 orchards, care should be taken that the stock of hogs 

 is sufficient to eat up all tlie early fruit which fall, from 

 May until August. This precaution will be more es- 

 pecially necessary in large peach orchards : for, other- 

 wise, when the hogs become cloyed with the pulp of the 

 peach, they will let it fall out of their mouths, and con- 

 tent themselves with the kernel, which they like better ; 

 and thus the curculio escaping from their jaws, may 

 hide under ground, until next spring. Solitary trees 

 of one fruit or another, remote from the orchard, should 

 be regarded as nurseries of the curculio, and ought to 

 be cut down or removed to the common enclosure. A 

 young orchard should not be planted in the place of, or 

 adjacent to an old one ; that it may not be immediately 

 infested with the curculio." 



