THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



219 



INSECT EXTERMIXATIOJf. 



We clip the following' from the Vindfind 

 (N. J.) Weekly of May lo, 1809. Mr. Laiidis 

 evidently means business. lie is taking- the 

 riglit step and if his advice is followed, and lie 

 succeeds in producing unanimity ot action, the 

 Vinelanders will soon obtain control over tlicir 

 liliputiaii foes. 

 To the Citizens of Vineland: 



I am convinced that Frnit cannot bo success- 

 fully raised in this community, or any other, 

 without waging systematic and successful war- 

 fare against the insect enemies. This success 

 involves a vast amount of present property and 

 more in the future. With this success Vineliuid 

 becomes pre-eminently the most valuable place 

 in the Union for fruit culture. 



To encourage success in this direction I there- 

 fore offer the following premiums, to be awarded 

 under the auspices of the Agricultural Society: 



Ten Dollars for the best Half Acre of Fruit 

 Trees kept the cleanest from Tree Giiibs, t'ur- 

 culios and Apple Moths. 



Ten Dollars for the best Acre ditto. 



Ten Dollars for the best Two acres ditto. 



Ten Dollars for the best Fonr Acres ditto. 



Ten Dollars for the best Five Acres ditto. 



Ten Dollars for the best Six Acres ditto. 



Ten Dollars for the best Seven Acres ditto. 



Ten Dollars for the best Eight Acres ditto. 



Ten Dollars for the best Nine Acres ditto. 



Ten Dollars for the best Ten Acres ditto. 



Togotlier with a Certiticatc of Merit, hand- 

 somely framed. 



The points to which it appears most necessary 

 for people to direct their attention are the fol- 

 lowing: 



First — Borers. Peach Trees — Dig them out 

 with a knife — depend upon nothing else. Nec- 

 tarine — Dig out the borers. Apple Trees — Dig 

 out the borers. The lirst year they can be found 

 with a knife; the second and third years require 

 an annealed wire. 



Second — Curculio. Only to be destroyed by 

 jarring the trees and letting them fall upon a 

 sheet, and burning them. Do not shake but jar 

 the trees. This is to be done early in the morn- 

 ing, and as often during the day as necessary. 

 They infest the Apricot, the Peach, the Nectar- 

 ine, the Plum, the Apple, the Pear, the Quince 

 and Cherry. Also gather all the fruit that falls 

 to the ground immediately, as this fruitcontains 

 their eggs. They appear from the middle of 

 May until July, but have to be looked for before 

 and after these periods. 



Third — The Apple Tree Jfofh. The great 

 enemy of the Apple, the Pear and the (Juincc. 

 The remedy for the apple moth is : 



1st — Gathering the fruit as it falls to the 

 ground, and burning it or feeding it to stock. 



2d — Trapping them by ooiled rope made of hay 

 or rags (not straw) coiled three times around 

 apple, pear and quince trees. These bauds 

 shouhl be i)ut upon the trees about the 20th of 

 June and examined every two weeks and the 

 caterpillars destroyed. They should be kept on 

 until the middle of October. 



The amount of labor this requires when done 

 regularly and with system, is very small in pro- 

 portion to the immense profit to be obtained. 

 It ensures a full and certain crop of fruit. By 

 this means apricots and plums can be as readily 

 raised as anything else. 



I respectfully recommend that associations be 

 formed in all the school districts of people who 

 will agree to keep their orchards clear of insects ; 

 who will meet together once a week, oroftener, 

 for mutual understanding and information, ami 

 to take measures concerning the cleaningof those 

 orchards that are neglected. This is of i)ara- 

 mount importance until a proper law is obtained 

 npon the subject. These meetings should be 

 held at once, without any delay. 



Citizens, fruit culture means painstaking la- 

 bor. It requires the destruction of insects, and 

 for this labor it will return you a thousand fold. 

 This necessity is a blessing in disguise, as it ele- 

 vates the business to an art, removing many 

 farmers, also careless people, from competition, 

 making the profits to the careful and industrious 

 proportionately large. C'has. K. Landis. 



ViNKl.AND, M:iy JO, ISliO. 



TO DESTKOY COLORADO POTATO liFtiS. 



FAini'LAY, Wis., Miiy 2.1, Isfin. 



FitiEXU Brown — I noticed in your last issue 

 an article about the ])otato bug. Now, as the 

 season is approaching tor this enemy of the 

 potato to make its annual raid upon onr fields, 

 I thought I would send you a cure, which ■« ill 

 most certainly put a stop to their depredations. 

 We tried it last year, and destroyed millions of 

 them, and consequently had a lirst rate crop of 

 potatoes. It is this: Take one pound of Paris 

 Green (cost 60 cents) and mix with two pounds 

 of flour. Sift the mixture through a coarse 

 muslin cloth, upon the potato tops, early in the 

 morning, when the dew is on the tops. The 

 bugs will drop to the giound by thousands, 

 never to rise again. The above quantity of in- 

 gredients will answer for an acre of potatoes. 

 Please tell everybody of it, so that they can all 

 raise good potatoes, as I did. — Gi:o. LiDni.n, Sr., 

 in Galena (Ills.) Gazette. 



[We can confidently recommend the above 

 remedy as the most effectual and probably the 

 cheapest yet known. Last year we tried Paris 

 tJreeu and ashes — one part of the green to live 

 of ashes — and though it killed most of the larva? 

 it did not seem to affect the parent beetles. But 

 we are inclined to believe that the Paris Green 

 we used was not of good quality ; for experi- 

 ments the present year according to the above 

 directions have been highly satisfactory. AVheu 

 first appKed in the morning it seems to have but 

 little ettect, as the bugs continue feeding for 

 some time as ravenously as ever, but as night 

 approaches the ground becomes, by degrees, 

 strewn with the dead carcasses of both the larvae 

 and beetles, and by the day following not a live 

 bug will be found on the vines, if the applica- 

 tion has been thoroughly made. — Ei>s.] 



