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or more. They don't do much damage when deposited 

 in the crotches of limbs, but often completely girdle 

 the trunk. Harris recommends removing the earth from 

 the base of the tree, and crushing and destroying the 

 cocoons and borers which may be found in it and under 

 the bark. Cover the wounds with wet clay and surround 

 the trunk with a sheet of sheathing paper eight or nine 

 inches wide, which should extend two inches below the 

 level of the soil, and tie above. Fresh, wet clay should 

 then be put around the roots so as to hold the paper and 

 prevent access beneath it, filling up with new loam. Do 

 this in the spring, or in June. Next winter remove the 

 strings and next spring again examine the trees for borers 

 and renew the protecting application. Heretofore, on 

 the peninsula, we have merely had to destroy the borer 

 by scratching around the trunks of the trees, and in the 

 earth around it, and hooking him out wherever found ; 

 destroy him, and also destroy all cocoons, and scratch 

 out suspicious looking places in the bark. This is all 

 that is necessary now, but we don't know what may 

 come to us, and to be forewarned is to be forearmed ; for 

 this reason I have given Harris' method of destroying 

 them. From what we have said of the worms, it will be 

 seen that they may be present all through warm weather, 

 and you must begin to watch for them in June and on 

 through until frost. Whenever you see gum or saw-dust 

 about the body of the tree, or in the crotches of large 



