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me of a new method of mounding, which is without the usual objections, and 

 he claims a great saving of labor. He hooks tins around the trees — the same 

 used to keep the cut worm at bay. He fills in between them and the tree with 

 earth. This is done about the first week of July, after the cut worms have 

 ceased work, and in time for the first eggs of the borer. In September he 

 removes the tins and destroys the caterpillars, which can be done with far less 

 labor than when we have to dig them from beneath the earth at its usual level. 



Remedy 2, Digging out the Borer. — The best method, and, I believe, a 

 cheaper than the above, is to dig them out in the fall, the last of September. 

 The oozing gum leads to their quick detection, when they can be easily crushed. 

 Our best pomologists, for fear some wee depredators escaped detection, go over 

 the trees again in May. This is not a tedious process and should never be 

 neglected. I have seen whole orchards languishing, and many trees killed out- 

 right, by neglect to destroy these hateful borers. Such neglect in case of a fruit 

 so rare, so delicious, and so profitable wherever it can be successfully grown, is 

 unvenial. 



Remedy 3. — Secrefcary Bateham, of Ohio, tells me that washing the base of 

 the trees with the following compound is an effectual preventive, and he thinks 

 the cheapest : Thin one quart of soft soap with water, heat this to nearly the 

 boiling temperature, then add one ounce carbolic acid in crystallized form. 

 When cool, add ten times its bulk of water. Apply in July with brush to the 

 base of the tree. This prevents egg-laying. — P. C. Lewis. 



ESTIMATE OF CROPS IN ONTARIO. 



The estimate below was published by an American exchange, under date of 

 the 15th of July. 



