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there is nothing to prevent the insect from feeding undisturbed and com- 

 ing to maturity. Dealing with this insect is an unsatisfactory matter. 

 We cannot in any way reach the larvae by means of a poisonous spray, 

 because it never at any time feeds exposed. When it leaves the fruit it 

 drops to the ground, and at once bores beneath the surface, where it is 

 again out of reach. The beetle goes into Winter quarters long before 

 mid-Summer, and is not again seen until the Spring following, when it 

 attacks the young leaf and flower buds. Here we have an opportunity 

 of reaching it with a poisonous mi.xture, and the most satisfactory results 

 liave been obtained with Paris green, one pound in 175 gallons of water, 

 used when the buds are full and before they have opened. At that time 

 the curculio feeds both on the leaf and flower buds, and there is a good 

 ■chance of killing the adult before the fruit sets and before it can lay eggs. 

 In many large plum orchards the old remedy of jarring the trees is still 

 resorted to and works satisfactorily. It means that every morning, or at 

 least every other day, depending upon the number of beetles, the round 

 of the orchard must be made, and by a sudden jar on the trees the startled 

 beetles will be induced to drop into a sheet or other receptacle spread 

 ready to receive them. Good practice is to have all the windfalls in an 

 orchard destroyed as fast they drop. In other words, all lallen fruit must 

 be kept cleared up, this can best be done by pasturing hogs or sheep in 

 the orchard. There is no danger in this practice, even if the trees are 

 sprayed, because not enough of the poison falls to the vegetation under 

 the trees to make it at all dangerous to stock of any kind. In feeding 

 upon the windfalls the animals destroy the larvae, which would otherwise 

 develop in them. It means persistent work to lessen the number of these 

 insects, but if there could be such a thing as cooperation among the fruit- 

 :growers and all would adopt these same measures, the injury done would 

 be materially reduced. 



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