ill this climate, when the moth and beetles 
usually appear. The odor is so pungent 
and lasting that no egg will be deposited 
where it has been applied, and the effect 
will continue till after the insects have 
done flying. If the crude acid cannot be 
obtained, one third of the pure will answer, 
but it is more expensive .—Fruit Recorder. 
James W. Robison, Esq., of Fremont, 
Ill., an ex-president of the Illinois State 
Horticultural Society, gives the following 
mode of dealing with this destructive in¬ 
sect: The eggs are deposited in the bark of 
the tree, the beetle puncturing or splitting 
the bark of tree upward or downward 
and a little sidewise, the puncture looking 
very much as if made with an ordinary 
pocket-knife. The eggs are usually injected 
into this puncture so deep as to be out of 
sight; but not always. On young and thin 
barked trees the eggs will be pushed in 
next to the wood, but in older and thicker 
barked trees they will only be through 
the hard outer bark and the inner soft 
bark. As soon as the eggs begin to hatch 
which is in a few days after being deposited 
its enlargement causes the puncture to 
open, and thereby it is much easier 
detected. The young borer hatches out in 
the inner side of the egg and eats out a cir¬ 
cular piece the size of a half-dime; and then 
starts off, boring upward at first, but 
sometimes sidewise or downward. At this 
stage of development it is easy to detect the 
young depredator by a few drops of discol- 
ed juice of the tree extending from the 
punctuer and sticking on the bark. The 
larvae usually bore down below the ground 
surface in the Winter, and up again in 
Summer, living in the larvae state in the 
tree nearly two years, then boring out in 
the form of the beetle, ready to repeat their 
round again. The remedy I have success¬ 
fully used is to keep the ground around the 
trunk of the trees clean and mellow, so 
that there will be no cracks or openings 
there for beetles to get in to lay their egg 
in the tree, and so that the puncture where 
the eggs are laid or young beetles hatching 
may be easily seen, and eggs or insects de¬ 
stroyed, which can be done while in the 
eggs by merely pressing firmly on the 
puncture with a knife blade (the cracking of 
the eggs can be heard distinctly,) and if 
hatched, by cutting away the dead bark 
over the cavity first eaten out, and killing 
the young worm. The borers do not go 
into the wood much the first year, and can 
be easily foliow r ed with the knife; but if 
not taken out soon after hatching, they se¬ 
riously injure, if not entirely kill the tree, 
especially when they run around just un¬ 
der the bark, as they sometimes do. Or, 
when several borers are in a small tree, 
they so injure it that it breaks over with 
the wind. If the ground is well cleared 
and patted down smooth around the trees 
about the last of June, the destroying of 
the eggs and young borers will be much 
more certain. The trees should be examin¬ 
ed twice or perhaps three times a year, if 
the borers are very numerous, in order that 
the first hatched may be killed before they 
so serious injury to the trees. August. 
September and October are the months in 
which to destroy them. They seem to in¬ 
fest certain parts of an orchard from year 
to year, while others are comparatively ex¬ 
empt. Low grounds have been more infest¬ 
ed with me than higher parts of the orchard. 
A man can usally examine and kill all eggs 
and borers in five hundred or more trees 
per day, if the ground has been properly 
prepared, and no work in any orchard has 
been so absolutely necessary. 
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Clover as a Fertilizer. 
A corresponent desires i information 
about the fertilizing value of clover. We 
presume he refers to what it leaves in the 
soil when the crop has been cut or fed off 
as pasture. But plowed under green, there 
is scarcely anything in the way of vegeta¬ 
tion that surpasses it as green manure. 
The fertilzing effect of a clover sod, ac¬ 
cording to Dr. Lawes, is equal to 180 
pounds of nitrate of soda to an acre. This 
estimate, however, is not high enough, if 
experiments made in Germany by Dr. 
Weishe and Dr. Weruncy, are taken as 
approximately correct. These show that an 
