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FRUIT CULTURE. 



GRAPE VINE 

 BARK LOUSE. 



Grape-Vine Bark I/OUSe. There is often found on the branches 

 of the grape vine during the month of June, brown scales 

 under one end of which there is seen a cotton Hke sub- 

 stance protruding, which grows in size for a couple of 

 weeks until this cotton-like substance is some five times 

 the size of the scale. These scales are usually found in 

 great abundance and will shortly let out innumerable 

 hosts of lice. These scales should be removed by scrap- 

 ing them off with a knife before the young lice have a 

 chance to hatch and escape. 



Plum Curculio. To annihilate curculio, make a 

 very strong solution of gas-tar and water, so that after 

 standing a couple of days it will be dark-colored, and as 

 pungent as creosote. On the first appearance of the 

 curculio, with a small hand-forcing pump (which every 

 gardener ought to have) give the trees an effectual 

 drenching, and repeat it every three days for two weeks. 

 As a preventive measure, destroy all the fruit as it falls, 

 and this can best be done by allowing your fowls free range from the 

 orchard. 



Canker Worm. The canker worm, also called the measuring 

 worm, is about one inch in length when full grown, and varies 

 in color from light green to a light brown. It attacks the 

 leaves of the apple and other trees, of which it is a great 

 eater. The worms usually hatch about the time the young 

 leaves are coming out from the bud. The female insect has 

 to crawl up the tree to lay her eggs, as she is without wings, 

 and she can be prevented from going up the tree by putting a 

 cloth covered with tar around the tree, near its base, in the 

 very early spring. It is best to put them on in October, and 

 keep them on till the leaves are full grown in the spring. 



Peach Borer. The best method used to destroy this pest 

 is to bank up to the height of from eight to ten inches, add- 

 ing a little each successive spring. This will prevent the 

 depredations of the peach borer. Another is the use of 

 scalding water. Early each spring scrape around the trees 

 with a large knife on the morning of ' 'washing day. ' ' When can 

 the washing is done, take buckets full of boiling suds into the wo 

 orchard, and dash the trees just where the trunks join the ground. 



