Salt is also useful. It should be spread under th(* 

 tree when the plums begin to fall. The ground should 

 be made smooth and hard. Downing recommends 

 that it be spread to the depth of one fourth of an 

 inch as far out as the limbs extend. The plums fall- 

 ing upon this the larvuD die before they can work their 

 way into the ground. The salt is an excellent fertili- 

 zer for the plum, Ahother method is to place sheets 

 under the tree at. morning and night and strike the 

 tr\ink with a padded malet and as the curculios fall 

 kill them. Large crops of plums are saved in this 

 way. Aiiother way is to pick the plums as they fall 

 and burn them. This should be done whichever way 

 is pursued, as this destroys the next years brood of in- 

 sects. 



By pursuing some or all of the above processes, our 

 plum crops would be very much benefited. We hope 

 our plum cultivators will try them. Above we give 

 a cut of a pluin with a curculio and two crescent 

 marks upon it, although the insect seldom makes but 

 one if there ai^e plums enough Tor its purposes. 



Caterpillars, — These well knoSvn insects make a web 

 for shelter and are in it morning, noon, night and du- 

 ring wet weather. They iiiay then be crushed, or 

 burnt with sulphur "or turpentine, or destroyed vnt^ 

 strong tobacco water. 



Peach Tree Borers,- — :The j)^i'fsct in^^ects are sleu; 

 der, dark blue, four-winged moths, resembling wasp^. 

 They deposit their eggs from June to Oct. in the soflt 

 bark of the trunk at the ground. These hatch and 

 become the borers. They enter a.nd destroy the bark 

 and sap of the tree, causing it to die. After passing 

 the winter in the tree, they enfold in cocoohs, and 

 emerge again in June. To protect the treesy put ashes 

 or air-slacked lime about the base of the trunks. 



^S'/w^^— These arc dark olive colored insects, some* 



what resembling snails. They prey Upon the;lea<y'e$ 



^of cherry and pear frees and rose bushes. To IdU 



