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2. After setting the trees out carefully, protect them from the attacks of 
the beetle, by washing them with the following preparation : To two quarts 
of soft-soap, add half a pound of sulphur, and dilute the mass till it is as 
thin as paint, by pouring in strong tobacco-water. The tobacca-water may 
be prepared by breaking up fine, two ounces of strong tobacco, and pouring 
on two or three quarts of soft warm water, and letting it stand two or three 
days before the wash is made ; apply the wash with an old broom freely to 
the trunk and lower branches, after the rough bark has been scraped off. 
Make one application about the middle of May, and another about the first 
of June. It is said that the beetle will not touch a tree that has thus been 
treated. 
8. Before the weather becomes very hot, we think the trees should be 
well whitewashed with lime, or protected from the sun by a board, or by 
wrapping a wisp of straw or hay round the portions most exposed to the 
heat. White does not absorb heat as darker colors do. If the trees are 
whitewashed, and one of the other covers for the young trees are used, 
very few, we think, will be injured ; always supposing that the preventives 
mentioned first, are faithfully employed.. 
4. A little circle of ashes should be placed at the root of the tree close 
around the collar. This, it is believed, will prevent the beetle from dis- 
turbing the tree at that point, if it be done early enough in the season. 
Mow shall we destroy the Borers we have ? In the case of trees that have 
been seriously injured, we can say nothing better, than that they should be 
pulled up, root and branch, and the part that contains the grubs destroyed. 
If they have been but little hurt, the grubs should be carefully extracted 
and killed, and the wounds covered with grafting wax or shell-lac, and the 
tree washed as above suggested. 
If young trees have been much punctured, we believe they had better be 
destroyed at once. It will be of little use to try to save them ; and if they 
do live, they would be weak and nearly worthless. 
We repeat, that the trees already infested, should be treated with the 
wash mentioned above, after the grubs have been taken out. This would, 
it is hoped, prevent their return. 
We have made our remarks on this topic longer than we designed. But 
we cannot close without begging all our nurserymen, and fruit-growers, to 
attend to this matter speedily. They may avoid great disappointment, by 
prompt attention to the trees and shrubs, this year. They may suffer great 
loss and^subsequent discouragement, by neglecting it for one month longer. 
— Ohio Farmer. 
