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TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 5, 
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Powder-Post Beetles. 
(I. D. /?., UingUncn, Pa. -In building my 
house I used newly sawed oak lumber for 
sills, joists and rqfters. Soon after Its 
completion | discovered worms working In It. 
Thinking they would stop working after the 
lumber became dry 1 paid little attention 
to It, but after two years standing I (Ind It 
evident that one must move. Will Tiib K. 
N.-Y. kindly help me hold the fort? 
A ns.— Probably tbe insects which arc 
working in the timbers of tbe correspond¬ 
ent’s bouse arc what arc known as “pow- 
Jcr-post beetles.” They are very small, slen¬ 
der, dark-colored beetles whose grubs tun¬ 
nel through the wood, converting it into a 
mass of fine powder. They work mostly 
in the sapwood rather than in the more 
central or harder parts of the lumber. No 
method has been suggested that is prac¬ 
ticable for destroying the insects working 
in the timbers of a house. When these 
timbers are damaged or weakened by the 
insects, tbe only thing to be done is to re¬ 
move them and replace with sound heart- 
wood material, eliminating all sapwood. 
Where they attack valuable furniture or 
lumber of any kind before it is used, they 
can be killed by subjecting the wood to a 
high, dry beat in a kiln, or by thoroughly 
steaming the wood, or by making a liberal 
application of kerosene, benzine or gaso¬ 
line on infested furniture. Of course, a 
practicable preventive measure would be to 
have all important timbers used in wood¬ 
en structures entirely free from sapwood. 
I find these suggestions in Circular No. 
issued a few years ago from tbe 
Bureau of Entomology of the U. S. De¬ 
partment of Agriculture. 
M. V. Sl.INGTiRI.AND. 
Pure Kerosene for Spraying. 
J. /■’. IV., iriijhland. A'. V. <’nn fruit trees 
and currant bufthes be sprayed with clear 
kerosene oil for San Josfi scale, without In¬ 
jury to the tree or bush, and will It destroy 
the scale? If it can he used when should 
It he done? A fruit grower here claims 
that he used It last Winter on trees that 
were badly affected with scale, and com¬ 
pletely destroyed the scale, without Injury to 
the tree. 
A ns.— The best information wc have 
concerning the use of pure kerosene is 
found in a circular from the New Jersey 
Station, as follows: 
Kerosene is fatal to almost all kinds of 
Insect life, and, carelessly lined, Is almost 
as fatal to plants. Carefully used It Is 
one of our most valuable Insecticides, and 
may bo applied full strength on the foli¬ 
age of most, of the ordinary orchard trees 
without causing serious Injury. The essen¬ 
tial points to he kept In mind when apply¬ 
ing undiluted kerosene are: The day must 
he dry and Clear; the tree must he dry; the 
kerosene must he applied In a line, mist- 
llke spray, and no more of it used than Is 
necessary thoroughly to wet -not drench - 
all parts. In other words, undiluted kero¬ 
sene should lx* applied in such a way and 
at such a time as will allow of tin* most 
rapid and complete evaporation. It kills 
almost Immediately whatever Insect It 
touches, and the sooner It disappears there¬ 
after the better for the tree. These rules 
apply Summer and Winter, and on [teach 
trees Summer applications are less likely 
to cause Injury than those made In Winter. 
Peach trees less than three years old should 
not lx* Winter-treated with kerosene. Weak 
or sickly trees are apt to lx* Injured by 
either Summer or Winter treatment, and 
foliage badly spotted with scab or rust Is 
quite usually destroyed. In such vases new 
shoots are promptly sent out If the tree 
Is otherwise in good condition. Kerosene 
reaching the roots of a tree will kill It. al¬ 
most Invariably; hence none should lx* 
spilled on the ground and it should not he 
so freely applied as to allow It to run down 
the trunks below the surface of the ground. 
The best time to treat a tree with undiluted 
kerosene Is Just before the buds begin to 
swell, or after the fruit has become well 
set. Put the trunks and large branches 
may he treated at almost any time. Karo¬ 
se ne undiluted need he applied only In rare 
cases of serious Infestation by very resist 
ant scsles, e. g., the pernicious or Saif 
•Tns 8 scale, or when a had attack of aphides 
threatens the life of a tree. Its penetrating 
power Is such that we can also reach with 
It many Insects that hibernate beyond the 
reach of the ordinary Insecticides, as the 
Pear psylla, the Pear bllstcr-mlte and per¬ 
haps the Peach twlg-borcr. 
Death of Alfred F. Conakd. —Alfred 
F. Conard, one of tbe pioneer rose 
growers of America and an originator of 
the idea of distributing plants through tbe 
mails, died at bis home, West Grove, 
Pcnna., December IC>, aged 72 years, lie 
was one of the founders of the rose- 
growing firm of Dingce & Conard, and 
later established tbe rose nursery busi¬ 
ness so widely known as The Conard 
& Jones Company, which under bis 
direction has become one of tbe most 
extensive in tbe country. Mr. Conard 
took a keen interest in everything related 
to tbe culture of popular ornamental 
plants, and was active in a business way 
to tbe last. Tbe widespread interest in 
rose culture now so evident everywhere 
is largely due to the efforts of Mr. Conard 
and bis associates, extending over 30 
years, to disseminate these lovely (lowering 
plants at the lowest possible cost to the 
buyer. A very good portrait of Mr. Con¬ 
ard is given on page 3, big. 4. 
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