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single bandage made of old India rubber cloth, oil cloth, or any 

 cheap muslin well painted and dried for use, or any other covering 

 "which will certainly prevent the absorption of the corrosive by the 

 wet earth. Then tie a string around the bandage firmly, around the 

 upper end, above the ground, and replace the earth and pack it 

 around the tree as before. In the early part of next April, take off 

 the bandages, cleanse, and save them for use again. You will find 

 the preparation still on the bark, but no grubs alive, and if any are 

 found in newly dressed trees, they will be nothing more than the 

 skins of worms which had gained an entrance before the dressing 

 was applied. Ko grub can live under this dressing, if applied as is 

 here directed. The corrosive costs about eight shillings per pound, 

 which would be sufficient to protect a large orchard. The whole 

 expense of making the application, will, I think, not exceed two 

 cents a tree. 



MODE OF PACKING APPLES FOR SHIPMENT. 



We extract the following from a communication made to the In- 

 stitute, on the subject of preparing apples for shipment: 



GENTLEMEN-^At your request, I give you my opinion and expe- 

 rience, with the means I have taken to procure good apples, for put- 

 ting up for shipment to Europe, or for sending on any other voyage. 

 About the autumn of 1836 or '37, I had some thirty or forty barrels 

 of apples to pick. I was then engaged clearing a piece of land in 

 New-Jersey for a farm, part of which was an orchard, which had 

 been set out about twenty years before; this had been neglected, and 

 was all the land that had been tilled, if we except four or five acres 

 more, which had been used as a potato patch. In the orchard, with 

 some other fruit trees, were some Newtown pippin trees, and all in 

 a shocking state of neglect. I set about to clear it up, and render 

 it productive. In March I had the trees scraped w^ith a dull hoe, to 

 which I had a short handle fixed, to make it more hsndy to scrape 

 off the outside dead bark; after this, having trimmed the boughs and 

 branches, I prepared a quantity of soft soap. "With this in a buckeit 

 and an old whitewash brush, I sent a man in the orchard to smear 

 all the stems of the fruit trees, and all the other trees which stood 

 by, knowing or thinking the little depredators I wished to be rid of, 

 might lurk under the bark of any tree that stood in the orchard or 

 near it, as well as in the fruit trees. It was a " bearing year " as 

 the farmers call it, and there was a great crop of apples, and I had 



