S56 OF INSECTS, kc. 



different parts of the trees. The first thing you 

 do in the morning, being provided with a board 

 about eighteen inches square, and a small wooden 

 trowel, take down the bundles of bean-stalks, one 

 by one, strike them against the board, and with 

 your trowel kill the ear-wigs as they fall out of the 

 stalks. If you follow this up every morning (or 

 every other morning,) you will be able to keep 

 them under. 



The foregoing method will answer for any sort 

 of trees infissted with earwigs. In some years I 

 have seen a great part of the fruit, especially the 

 smooth-skinned sorts, destroyed by these insects 

 and a small green caterpillar ; and in a scarce 

 year of fruit, the leaves of Peaches are frequently 

 destroyed by them. 



The shreds taken from trees that have been 

 unnailed in Autumn, should be soaked in boiling- 

 hot soap-suds for three or four days, previous to 

 their being used again ; this will kill the eggs of 

 earwigs and other insects that may be deposited on 

 them. 



Of the Ant. 



The Ant is very destructive to fruit, especially 

 the Peach when ripe. You will frequently see 

 these insects travelling all over the trees, and some- 

 times the fruit will be iilled with them. The best 

 method that I have found to destroy them is, to 

 get a sharp-pointed wooden-stake, or an iron crow. 



