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He has a preventive for the borer less troublesome than Dr. Trimble's 

 prescription, to dig them out with a wire. Here it is : The best remedy 

 1 have seen is to make a little bag and put a piece of soap in it and 

 place it securely in the crotcii of the tree, so it can drip down the 

 trunk witli the rain, tlius the trunk is always supplied with alkali 

 and grease. No borers will be found infesting trees thus treated. 

 August is the month most of the new hatched worms enter the trees. 

 Their fresh borings will be seen around the tree. I suppose the 

 e^g is deposited some time before. The borers of different trees 

 transform into different varieties of bugs. The quince become the 

 small brown snapping bug ; turn them on their back they will 

 snap up and turn over. The apple borers become a speckled 



Mr. D. Carpenter, of Forest Grove, N. J., furnished his recipe for 

 dealing with these destroyers of the infant vines. He said : The 

 safest and surest remedy I have ever found is fresh charcoal pulver- 

 ized. Dust it on the hill when you put the seed in, and as soon as 

 the plants are up dust them plentifully. If washed off by rain repeat 

 the operation. Thus treated, the plants are perfectly safe. I have 

 seen all bugs disappear at once on the application when the plants 

 were almost covered with the bugs. There is no fear of injuring the 

 vegetation by use of charcoal. 



Mr. E. D. Benedict, of Fairport, Monroe county, K. Y., gave his 

 ideas in getting rid of striped bugs as follows : I notice in your last 

 session an inquiry for a remedy to prevent striped bugs from destroy- 

 ing vines. I beg leave to give mine, which I have found successful 

 in all cases, both of striped and common squash or pumpkin bug. 

 Take coal tar and saturate corn cobs, and place them in the hill close 

 to the vine, not touching the plant, and I will warrant not a vine will 

 be destroyed by bugs afterward, no matter how many are on at the 

 time of the application, they will surely leave to find a sweeter home. 



Thrifty Pp:Acn Tkees. 

 Mr. S. Sayler, who was present, from Alligan, Michigan, eighteen 

 miles from the lake,. gave some account of the peach prospect in that 

 locality. He said he had known orchards of these trees, which, dur- 

 ing the past thirty years, never failed to produce good crops. The 

 borer does not torment, and theives break not through to steal. 

 Besides, that section of country is capital for most fruits, and, in the 

 opinion of the speaker, it was really the place to which young men 



