Carbolic Acid. 
thing attainable. Those who have old worn 
out discarded clothing, carpets, etc. can use 
them as far as they will go. A band three 
or four inches wide of one thickness will 
answer, but two or three thicknesses would 
be better. They will choose a dark place 
and one that appears sheltered from the 
rain. The bands should be long enough 
to surround the tree and lap an inch or 
two. They may be tied around with 
twine or the ends lapped and nailed with a 
single tack, or two tacks may be used, so 
that when the last one is drawn and you are 
searching for worms, one end of the band 
may remain tacked to the tree. The pat¬ 
ent bands, a strip of Canton flannel attach¬ 
ed to a broader strip of pasteboard, would 
be more durable than paper, but whether 
enough more to pay extra cost has not been 
fully demonstrated. 
After these bands are once attached to 
the trees they must not be neglected. The 
object is not to furnish the worms conven¬ 
ient place in which to undergo their regu¬ 
lar transformations and make their escape 
fully developed moths, to propagate anoth¬ 
er generation of larvae to perforate the more 
advanced fruit, bat rather to destroy them 
in the larval or pupa state. To do this we 
must examine the bands frequently, and 
destroy every worm we find under or about 
them. The exact period required for them 
to pass through the transforming stage pro¬ 
bably depends somewhat upon the tempera¬ 
ture, in the summer from two to three 
weeks. From eight to ten days is as long 
an interval as should be permitted to elapse 
between examinations during the summer 
season, while once a month may answer 
during the autumn. 
Now if this careful and thorough war 
fare upon the codling worm be practiced, 
by all the orchardists of a neighborhood, 
the proportion of worm effected fruit will, 
unquestionably, be very much reduced 
leaving a very much larger proportion of 
such fruit as the farmer delights to offer to 
his fellow citizens for their consumption. 
The expense of going entirely through this 
process, not estimating the cost of swine 
or sheep, ought not to exceed ten cents a 
tree at the outside, and the principal item 
would be scraping the trees. 
Carbolic acid is destructive to the lower 
forms of insect life, while it is innocuous to 
the higher; hence, it forms one of the best 
means of protection against the ravages of 
noxious insects and malarial deposits. The 
crude acid in open vessels disinfects the dis¬ 
eased atmosphere, and diluted and incorpo¬ 
rated in other forms it destroys all insect 
life upon trees and plants. The best man¬ 
ner of applying it in the latter case, that we 
ever noticed, is that prescribed by T. T. 
Southard, of Rochester, N. Y., in the Gar¬ 
dener's Monthly. He says: “I obtain 
crude carbolic acid; I use it in this form 
because it is stronger and better for the pur¬ 
pose, and costs but very little] [about twen- 
five cents a gallon I think.] I pour a quan¬ 
tity of this dark, crude acid into a quantity 
of good strong soft soap; stir well together 
and allow to stand a few hours. I then test 
the compound by mixing it with soft water, 
if too much acid has been added, oily par¬ 
ticles of carbolic acid will be observed 
floating on the surface. This shows that 
more acid has been put in than the soap 
will incorporate or cut, and soap should be 
added to balance the excess of acid. No 
more definite rule can be given, as so much 
depends on the strength of the soap. Two 
or three tablespoonfuls of the acid to a 
quart of soap may be first tried. I prefer 
to make as strong with the acid as the 
soap will perfectly cut. A very little prac¬ 
tice will enable any one to compound it cor 
rectly. The refined acid may be used 
when the crude is not at hand. When pre¬ 
pared as above, make a moderately strong 
suds, and apply with syringe or sponge. 
In using on very delicate plants, should any 
fear be felt for the plants, they can be 
rinsed off after a few minutes. 
The Editor of the Rural New Yorker , 
says: “At the present time, we should 
select among raspberries, Turners for early; 
Cuthbert for late; Belle de Fontenay for 
size and quality; Caroline [yellow] and 
New Rochelle [purple] to complete a 
handsome and excellent little assortment. 
