the pit leaving a minute black line to mark their ccmrse. 
On reaching the pit they do not burrow about it as in the 
case of the Plum Curculio but burrow straight on into the 
meat of the pit on which they feed until full}^ grown. Then 
the grub eats a hole through the pit so it can escape after it 
has changed to a beetle. The beetles emerge usually a lit- 
tle before the plums ripen, and destroy the fruit. The fruit 
that is punctured by the beetles becomes hard and gnarl)^ 
and is usuall}’ worthless. 
Remedies — My experiments do not indicate that poison- 
ous sprays can be used to any profit against this insect. The 
best remedy we know of at present is to jar the trees daily, 
either in the morning or in the evening and catch the 
beetles on sheets spread beneath the trees. Make a large 
sheet for the purpose, slit it from the middle of one side to 
the center and, in using, pass the strips thus made either 
side of the tree so that the latter will stand at the center of 
the sheet. Two men can use such a sheet very rapidly. 
Begin the work as soon as the trees blossom and continue 
as long as you can get half as many gougers as the number 
of trees jarred. 
THE PLUM CURCULIO [Conotnirheliis ticini ])har HevhsU 
This is by far the most serious pest to plum culture in 
the P2ast. It also attacks other pit fruits, including the 
cherry. A dark brown to blackish snout beetle, about one- 
fifth of an inch long and with four prominent humps on each 
wing cover. The mark that the beetle makes on the fruit 
when “stinging” it for the deposition of an egg is very char- 
acteristic and has given this insect the appellation, “Little 
Turk.” A puncture is made with the jaws and an egg de- 
posited in it and then the beetle turns about and cuts a 
crescent partly surrounding the egg. The grub eats through 
the hesh of the plum to the pit and then feeds about the pit 
but never eats into it. ddie fruit, as the result of this injury, 
falls. 
Remedies — Jarring as for the Plum Ciouger is the best 
remedy for this insect. Some benefit can be derivetl from 
the use of arsenical sprays but, if the same expense is put 
into the work of jarring and collecting the beetles, it is gen- 
erally believed that more good will be derived. 
\\diere chickens can be kept in large numbers under 
the trees early in the season this insect seldom does much 
injury. 
