March, 1901 



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WROUGHT IRON 



Fence and Entrance Gates 



WIRE FENCING 



Ornamental Iron Vork.Tree Guards 



Lawn Furniture etc. 



Tennis Court Enclosures a Specialty 



F ■ E CARPENTER • CO 



7 &. 9 Warren St. NewYork 



CAN'T SMASH IT ! 

 CAN'T SMELL IT ! 



Witt's Can 

 For Ashes or Garbage 



Flanged and Riveted and Made Still Stronger by 

 Heavy Steel Bands Riveted Around the Top and 

 Bottom. Witt's Can IS NOT Soldered. 

 Close-fitting Lid makes it FIRE- 

 PROOF and OTJOR-PROOF. 



The best is always imitated — the only way to know that vou 

 are getting Witt's is to look for the word Witt's on can and lid. 



Sizes— Witt's Can, No. 1, 15^x25 inches ; No. 2, 18x25; 

 No. 3, 20^x25. Witt's Pail, No. 7, 5 gallons; No. 8, 7 

 gallons. 



All steel, corrugated, galvanized, water-tight, odor-proof 

 (close-fitting lid). Known by the yellow label. 



Ask at the Stores for WITT'S CAN and look for 

 "Witt's Can" stamped on the lid and bottom. 



If not on sale in your town order direct from us. Use it and 

 if you don't like it we'll pay for its return and promptly refund 

 your money. 



The Witt Cornice Co. 



DEPARTMENT A, CINCINNATI, O. 



Ways to Kill the Peach Borer 



THE peach borer remains in its burrow in 

 the tree over winter. During warm 

 spells in the spring feeding is resumed and 

 by the latter part of May or early June the 

 borer is full grown. It then leaves its burrow 

 and constructs a cocoon at or near the sur- 

 face of the ground, usually on the trunk of 

 the tree near the burrow. Within the co- 

 coon it transforms to a pupa from which the 

 adult moth emerges during July or August. 

 The moths are day-flying insects and from 

 their transparent wings and yellow-banded 

 abdomens look much like wasps. The fe- 

 male lays her eggs upon the trunk of the tree, 

 usually upon the lower portion, or on the soil 

 or nearby weeds. The eggs hatch in about 

 ten days and the young borers seek an en- 

 trance at any crack in the bark of the tree. 



WAYS OF CONTROLLING THE PEST 



Two methods are in vogue for controlling 

 the pest. When a tree is badly infested the 

 only thing to do is to dig out the borers, which 

 can best be done in late spring (April) when 

 they are near the surface or have made their 

 cocoons. The usual practice is to mound up 

 the earth around the tree as much as possible 

 thus inducing the moth to lay her eggs upon 

 the upper part of the trunk, so that the 

 borers may be much more readily removed 

 when the mound is hoed away. The mound- 

 ing should be done before the moths deposit 

 their eggs in early summer and it is well to 

 examine the trunk of the tree just beneath 

 the top of the mound late in the summer for 

 young borers. 



Another way is to coat the trunk of the 

 tree with repellant washes. Gas tar has been 

 so used successfully in many instances, but 

 in other cases it has injured the trees. This 

 is possibly due to variation in composition or 

 to climatic conditions. It should be tested 

 on a small scale before using it extensively. 

 J. H. Hale, the prominent Georgia peach 

 grower, reports good success with the fol- 

 lowing — "Two quarts of soap, one-half pint 

 of crude carbolic acid, and two ounces of 

 Paris green, all thoroughly mixed with a 

 bucketful of water, to which enough lime and 

 clay have been added to make a thin paste." 



All such washes are largely repellants to 

 prevent the laying of the eggs and should 

 therefore be applied early in June. 



Frequently instead of mounding as has 

 been described, the tree is wrapped with 

 building paper or wood veneering, it being 

 sunk a few inches below the surface of soil. 



New Hampshire. E. D. Saunderson. 



