Killing Peach Borers with Chemicals 
If you have used the uevv chemical 
puradich loro benzene for killing peach 
borers, will you tell us how it has worked 
with you? Is it as effective as the old 
plan of digging the borers b.v hand? Can 
you use it on young trees without injury, 
or is id k use confined to mature trees? 
Do you tincl it effective in fighting the 
apple tree borer? Does it save labor, 
and is it more expensive than hand work? 
As I figure, it cost about same to use 
parndichlorohenzene, and is not as cer¬ 
tain as working iu the old-fashioned way, 
so we dig borers by band. o. T. iien’uy. 
Connecticut. 
We just finished using paradiehloro- 
benzene on our peach trees yesterday. 
The right ‘time for using it here seems to 
be from .September 15 to October 10. 
We use it on all trees over three years 
of age. On trees six years aud older we 
use one ounce per tree, on three to five 
year trees we use one-half ounce, and are 
careful to remove the mound around 
these youug trees just as soon as the 
borers are all dead, which is in about 
three weeks from time of application. 
Fresh soil is hilled up to the trees, so 
tliere will not be a hollow uround the 
trees over Winter. 
We have found this uew chemical very 
effective. Ip fact, 1 do not know what 
we would have done had it not come 
along when it (lid, us borers tveo becom¬ 
ing so plentiful we could not manage 
them at all. We used paradichlOrobeu- 
zune last year on our main orchard. 
Borers were very bad. The past Spring 
three men speut half a day goiug over 
the trees on the worst part of the or¬ 
chard, and only found two borers that 
had escaped the gas. I call it very nearly 
100 per cent, effective, and that is fur 
better than hand work is. Our labor is 
mainly Italian, and with them worming 
trees we find the injury to the trees from 
searching for borers almost us bad as 
lhe injury from the borers themselves. 
As for I he cost, I have not got exact 
figures, but 1 believe there is about one- 
ibird less expense by using ihe chemical. 
This is especially true where borers are 
plentiful. Where there are only a few 
borers and on young trees hand work 
would be the cheaper. Have not tried it 
on apples. I understand it is apt to in¬ 
jure apples. WILLARD B. KILLE. 
Hloucester Co., N. J. 
I used it as n trial last season on a 
few trees—trees eight years old or over. 
! will uni try it on young trees or trees 
say from oue to four years old. I Used 
it on trees that l knew were full of 
borers, put it around trees according to 
directions b.v station. In due course of 
time I leveled the soil again, aud found 
all borers dead. I do not think it saves 
labor, and l think it more expensive 
than hand work. To put this stuff on 
right one has to level or smooth the 
ground around on each tree. Then pour 
two ouuees of the stuff around the tree, 
keeping same about an inch or two away. 
Then cover the crystals and mound it up 
finite high. Then in about two or three 
weeks go all over the orchard again and 
level that mound of soil, so as to release 
what gas is left. 
Now it seems to me that while a man 
is going to all that work he might just 
us well have a sharp knife in his hand 
him! dig (he borer out, and do the thing 
with oue operation. It is very seldom I 
have to go over a tree more than the 
one time, though there may be exceptions 
to this rule. I presume the gas treat¬ 
ment will get every one, little and lug. 
hut as far as I am concerned 1 shall still 
relv on the knife. a. L. vreeland. 
New Jersey. 
Culture of Easter Lily 
I have some Easter lily bulbs; would 
von tell me the culture of them? 
Ridgefield. Conn. . EL E. P. 
Appropriate soil for potting an Easter 
lily bulb is three parts good fibrous loam 
•mil one part well-rotted manure. Put 
broken crocks iu the bottom for drainage, 
nnrl set the bulb in the middle of the pot, 
with two Inches of clear space above it. 
Barely cover with soil at lirst. then a- it 
grows* add more soil for the stem roots to 
run in. Keep the pot in a cool cellar or 
in a sheltered place outside, plunged in 
the ground, with a covering of litter over 
tlm soil, and a hoard to shed heavy rain. 
If plunged outside, put coal ashes under 
the pot. so that worm® will not enter. It 
is brought Into the living-room when roots 
are well formed. A <i-in. pot is a desir¬ 
able size. The l>ot must be well watered 
when first set away ; when covered with 
cinders or litter, it does not dry out much, 
but in the cellar it will often he found 
that more water is needed before the plant 
is brought up to the light. \\ hen first 
brought to the light they should he kept 
cool, with a night temperature of 15 to 50 
degrees for the first week or 10 days. 
When top growth commences, a night 
temperature of (50 degrees, rising to 70 
during the day, is desirable, Eilies like 
fresh air. and syringing over the plant is 
desirable, but the foliage should dry off 
before night, as wet foliage with the lower 
temperature Is detrimental. 
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