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Pieces of bark, boards, logs, stumps, litter of every kind oifer them 

 shelter. In early Spring when the weather is cold everything of the 

 kind in the vicinity of the orange grove infested, should be burned. 

 The insect is very fond of sucking the cow-pea, and lays its eggs near 

 its field of operation, often on the under side of the leaf of the plant 

 on which it feeds. If the orange grower will grow cow-peas in his 

 grove and bury them in trenches or holes dug at the extremity of the 

 orange roots, a few days after these insects have commenced to feed 

 upon the peas, he can destroy them at a most important time. Both 

 these plans were adopted by the writer during the present year and 

 his grove is now quite clear of this pest. 



When trees have been damaged seriously by either of these insects 

 the knife and saw must be freely used. Cut away all diseased wood. 

 Let the cutting be so heavy that the tree will start strong shoots. 

 Watch these young shoots carefully, in the early morning, for the 

 spider, and when the sun is warm, for the bug resembling the squash 

 bug. Kill all that make their appearance. If the extremity of the 

 shoots have been stung pinch them back. They cannot be saved if 

 the wood is very tender. If blisters appear in the harder wood punc- 

 ture them with a knife. It will relieve the wood which will readily 

 heal and the branch will soon recover its vigor. 



The writer has allowed some trees to go almost to the last extrem- 

 ity and brought them out by following the above plan. 



