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KEEP THEM AT HOME! 
The following members of the New York 
Senate voted against Governor Hughes in 
his efforts to remove the Superintendent 
of Insurance. Some of them have done so 
twice—others are backsliders. All have 
proved unworthy in a fair test. All are in 
districts where the votes of farmers can 
defeat them. It should be the duty of 
every farmer to blacklist them and keep 
them away from Albany. Vote them out! 
JOTHAM P. ALLDS.Norwich, N. Y. 
S. PERCY HOOKER.LeRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES .Canandaigua, N. Y. 
SANFORD W. SMITH_Chatham, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE .Syracuse, N. Y. 
BEN.T. M. WILCOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACKROYD .Utica, N. Y. 
FRANK M. BOYCE..East Schodack, N. Y. 
FRANCIS II. GATES. .Chittenango, N. Y. 
WM. W. WEMPLE_Schenectady, N. Y. 
WM. T. O’NEIL_St. Regis Falls, N. Y. 
OWEN CASSIDY .Watkins, N. Y. 
KILLING THE PEACH BORER. 
Every Summer there are many questions 
about the Peach borer and its work. Often 
a peach tree is noticed “sick” and unable to 
mature its fruit. The leaves curl up and 
take on a yellow color, the tree droops and 
is a mass of gum at the base. An expert 
would say “borers” at once, and digging at 
the base would show where the insect had 
gnawed the bark so that the tree cannot take 
sufficient food. We presume that commer¬ 
cial peach growers know all about the in- 
THE PEACH BORER. Fig. 353. 
sect, yet there are many people who never 
saw one. For their benefit we reprint pic¬ 
tures from Bulletin 73 of the Georgia Ex¬ 
periment Station. 
As worked out in Georgia the life history 
of the insect is as follows. The larvae or 
“worms,” shown at Fig. 353, gnaw at the 
lower trunk and roots during the late Fall. 
They become dormant during the coldest 
weather, but begin work again in Spring. 
In early Summer they form cocoons, from 
which, after 25 to 30 days, moths emerge. 
The female moth soon begins laying her 
eggs (she is pictured at Fig. 354.) These 
eggs are generally laid on the trunk of the 
tree close to the ground. When the base 
of the tree is protected by a mound, by 
paper or by a paint or smear, the moth 
lays her eggs higher up—sometimes on the 
lower branches or in a crotch. Each female 
will average about 500 eggs, and her aver¬ 
age life is almost one week. The eggs 
hatch in from eight to 10 days. The small 
worms seek the surface of the ground, and if 
possible enter the tree and drill their holes 
under the bark. Thus 10 months or more 
of the insect’s life are spent in the borer 
or destructive form, one month in the cocooq. 
and but a few days in the moth and egg 
periods. 
In fighting the insect little effort is made 
to destroy the moths or the eggs. The ob¬ 
ject is to kill the worm before it can finish 
its work on the tree. Dozens of methods 
have been suggested but probably nine- 
tenths of those who do any real fighting dig 
out the insect. Ilis presence is usually in¬ 
dicated by a mass of gum mixed with small 
bits of wood like sawdust. A mass of pure 
gum without this sawdust is not a sure indi¬ 
cation of borers, as a wound on the bark 
will often produce gum, but when the little 
chips are seen the insect is on hand. We 
dig away the earth from the base of the 
tree and scrape off the gum with an instru¬ 
ment like that shown at Fig. 355. The 
burrow or track of the borer will then be 
exposed. lie can be cut out with a sharp 
knife or dug out with a bent wire, and 
crushed. We have dug over 30 borers fropi 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 26, 
the base of a four-year-old peach tree! In 
some of the large southern orchards the 
gum is scraped off and thrown away from 
the iree, but little effort is made to dig out 
the borers. The gum contains many small 
insects, which if not removed might injure 
the tree. Many washes or methods of 
wrapping the trunks have been suggested, 
but the old “digging out” plan is surest. 
We have tried pouring hot lye around the 
tree—caustic potash or soda dissolved in 
boiling water. This is effective when a 
little opening is made in the soil around 
the tree and the gum is scraped off. We 
believe in mounding the tree—that is, put¬ 
ting a little pile of coal ashes or sand 
around the trunk. This compels the moth 
to lay her eggs higher up on the trunk, 
and to some extent prevents the entrance 
of the borers when they hatch. The picture 
at Fig. 352, page 747, shows another trou¬ 
ble which borers are sometimes responsible 
for. The wounds made by the insect have 
induced an attack of crown-gall. 
SUBURBAN HOME STRAWBERRIES. 
It is no great trick in a suburban garden 
to have a few' rows of strawberries that 
will during the growing season always look 
w r ell, or even ornamental, and that will yield 
during 20 days an average of 10 quarts of 
berries a day. Early last August, moving 
my residence from one place to another, a 
half mile apart, I transplanted some potted 
runners and a few year-old plants into three 
double row's, 50 feet long, the plants about 
10 inches apart in the rows and across 
from row' to row. No runners W'ere allowed 
to root. The plants wintered well, about 
MOTH OF PEACH GUM SCRAPING 
BORER. Fig. 354. IMPLEMENT. Fig. 355. 
one-quarter of each row being stunted, how¬ 
ever, by encroaching roots of poplar trees. 
We picked 135 quarts of good berries from 
these three rows. I counted 140 ripe or 
green berries on one of the transplanted 
year-old plants. (Transplanting done with 
a Richards transplanter). As soon as berries 
w'ere over, in fact before all were gone, with 
a sharp knife I cut away all leaves and 
stems, as close to the ground as possible, 
cleaned up the trimmings and few weeds 
that had escaped cultivation, spread a good 
coat of manure and aw'aited results. To¬ 
day these rows are very attractive, the 
foliage being new and green, and the plants 
growing amazingly. A few minutes once 
or twice a week suffice to pinch off run¬ 
ners, and keep the paths clean with a steel 
rake. Varieties, Marshall and Glen Mary. 
We look for 200 quarts next year. 
Bergen Co., N. J. G. w. 
Peaches for Massachusetts. 
R., Massachusetts .—If you were going to 
plant peaches in Massachusetts, w'here the 
temperature goes as low as 20 degrees be¬ 
low zero, what variety would you use? 
Crosby is as hardy as any I know; 
Waddell and Carman are also hardy. 
Greensboro is hard}, very early, cling, 
not very high quality. There may be 
others even more desirable. Elberta, 
Hiely and Belle of Georgia are quite 
hardy. m. morse. 
We should not set peaches commer¬ 
cially where temperature goes as low 
as 20 below zero. For home use nearly 
all the white early varieties are hardy 
in bud. We have had good success with 
Greensboro and Mamie Ross, as they 
have not rotted quite so badly as most 
others. Oldmixon is fairly hardy, El¬ 
berta about the same. Wager, Hills 
Chili and Crosby are a little more 
hardy in bud, but are back numbers 
commercially. h. o. mead. 
Makes Two 
Bundles of 
Wheat Grow 
Where but 
One Bundle 
Grew Before 
Getting a full crop 
from a fertilizer 
L with too little Pot¬ 
ash, is like getting 
well by the doctor’s 
prescription with its most important drug left out 
Most commercial fertilizers need more Potash to get all the crop profit you 
are entitled to. 
Use a brand with at least 6 per cent, of Potash, but if your dealer does not 
keep it, then mix 15 pounds of Muriate of Potash with each 100 pounds of your 
fertilizer. That will raise w/ieat! Set clover, too 1 
The proof will come next year in bigger crop, more profit 
Buy the Potash first 
Send for pamphlets containing facts about soil, 
crops, manures and fertilizers. Mailed free. 
GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau Street, New York 
Chicago—Monadnock Building Atlanta, Ga.—1224 Candler Building 
Potash is profit. 
Agricultural 
Lime 
LIME sweetens the soil and makes 
the plant food available for your crop. 
Alfalfa and Clover can be grown by 
the use of lime in sections where it is 
impossible to grow them without it. 
Lime used in connection with manure 
or other fertilizer will increase your 
hay crop 300 to 400%. 
Our lime is fresh burned 
96% PURE 
and acknowledged the best for use 
on sour land. 
Hydrated 
Lime 
in 50 lb. paper sacks. 
Write for prices and full information. 
NEW JERSEY LIME CO., 
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If you want your name to appear next month, 
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The Jacobson Air Cooled 
Gas and 
Gasoline 
Engines, 
Portable 
etc. with 
Usual _ 
Outfits. 
Water Cooled 
If 
Preferred 
vestigating the economy or Jacobson Gasoline 
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horse power desired or for what purpose used. 
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■ 
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APPLE BARRELS^™™”””—- 
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WANTED.—Alfalfa Hay, 
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R. F. SHANNON, Sewickley, All’y Co., Penn. 
THE ENORMOUS YIELD of 50,000 quarts of 
* Strawberries now growing by my system on 
one acre, Send for CHA RT. 
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ELLWANGER& BARRY’S 
Shrubs, Roses 
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Established 1840. Rochester, N. Y. 
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THE ST0RRS & HARRISON CO, 
Box 3, Painesville, Ohio. 
FflR Q AI C—Valuable Fruit and Grass Farm, 
lUn OnLL 171 acres, 6 miles from Worcester, 
Mass. High land, line view, % mile to large manu¬ 
facturing village, on main line Boston and Albany 
Railroad. Schools, stores, churches, depot, etc. 
1.800 young trees, best varieties Pear, Apple, Peach 
and Plum. 100,000 feet lumber, BOO cords wood. 
Buildings poor. Price $5,250 $o,000 cash, balance 
at 5 per cent. 
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