Destroying' Orchard Insects. 
BY J. J. ALLEN. 
First, growers have had much to try 
their patience for many years by having 
their fruit stung and becoming imperfect 
and wormy. A wormy apple, plum or 
chtrry is only fit to feed to swine, and a 
man must be more than one-lialf Jew who 
dose not think more ot a hog than to feed 
it wormy fruit. Then what can we say of 
the man who will gather wormy apples 
for the purpose of grinding them up to 
make cider for some one to drink or make 
into vinegar for use in the family. I have 
tried many ways to prevent fruit being 
injured by worms and insects. The best 
and most effectual was one resorted to last 
season for the first time. I took a piece of 
woolen cloth about six inches wide and 
wound it twice around the apple tree, 
about two feet from the ground, tying it 
in place with some common wrapping 
twine and then taking some common far 
and thinning it with some black oil, and 
warming the substance so that 1 could 
paint a strip on the cloth about two inches 
wiue, with an old paint brush, using care 
not to get the paint on the bark of the tree. 
This being done, it stopped the highway 
of ants and many other kinds of insects 
racing up and down the tree. In the fall, 
to my surprise I gathered a crop of apples 
that was generally free from worms, and 
was the smoothest and freest from im¬ 
perfections of any apples that I have grown 
for years. 
It was a curiosity to see the number of 
bugs, insects and worms that took up their 
lodgings in their attempt to march over 
the obstacle put in their pathway. 
A TRAP FOR FLIES &C., IN A PLUM ORCHARD. 
If you take a common kerosene lantern 
with guards around the glass, and put 
around it some thin white paper, and cover 
the paper with a coating of molasses the 
whi le length of the lantern, and then 
tie it in places on the globe of the lan¬ 
tern and hang the lantern in the orchard 
between the trees, on a stake about three 
feet from the ground, on a dark, warm, 
foggy night, well trimmed and lighted, and 
you will see that you have cought a vast 
number of the insects which would do 
you much harm if left to run at large. 
This should be done when the tree begins 
to blossom, and kept up for a few weeks 
until the fruit gets some size. To do this 
two or three nights in each week, for the 
required time, will accomplish much in the 
way of saving choice fruit. To put the 
cloth on the plum and cherry trees, as on 
tne apple trees, abox e described, will also be 
of much advantage to those trees as to the 
apple trees m keeping away many bugs 
tht would injure the tree and its fruit. 
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