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from the orchard, and away from around 
it. Have if possible, a cleared and culti¬ 
vated strip of ground from 150 to 200 
feet between your orchard and uncleared 
woodland. Trash and rough woodland 
harbors the curculio; in a large orchard 
you will invariably find worms worse next 
to woods or near a pile of trash. 
Jar the trees and pick up all fruit 
that drops off and also stung fruit 
found on the trees. This should be 
repeated every two weeks from the time 
that peaches are the size of a marble until 
they are ready to ship. Never allow a 
drop peach to be plowed under or decay 
in the orchard for in 99 cases out of 100, 
it has a worm in it that will develop in¬ 
to a beetle that will ruin a thousand peach¬ 
es next spring. Jarring the trees and 
catching in a sheet or bug catcher the 
peaches that fall and also the beetles (cur¬ 
culio) that may play o’possum and drop 
off is an old method practiced by success¬ 
ful plum growers in nearly all parts of 
the country, and by peach growers in 
many places. All the drop peaches that 
may have dropiped the night or day or so 
before should also be picked up and de¬ 
stroyed. 
If these precautions are taken it will 
be years before sufficient worms will de¬ 
velop in an orchard to be a menace to 
the fruit. This year we are trying some 
spray experiments for curculio and next 
year hope to be able to report the results. 
Brown Rot Fungus (Monilia Fructig- 
ina) is another pest that must be com¬ 
bated by preventatives rather than reme¬ 
dies, for by the time it makes its appear¬ 
ance and you commence applying your 
remedy, the mischief is done. The pre¬ 
cautions recommended for the curculio 
are the principal ones in preventing Brown 
Rot. The removal of all decaying peaches 
is important. Especially the mummied 
peaches, that you may occasionally see 
hanging in the trees. Plow the orchard 
by blooming time every spring and. be 
sure to stir the entire surface. This will 
disturb any mummied and decayed peach¬ 
es that may have accidently been left in 
the orchard and prevent them from 
throwing up a lot of larger fungus growth 
in the form of toad stools that will throw 
off sufficient brown rot fungus spores 
from a single mommied pleach tO' in¬ 
fest the trees of a five acre orchard. 
All caustic spray solutions are good 
as fungicides, the lime sulphur and 
salt mixture is equal to almost any 
fungicide known and one or two 
Spraying'S' during the winter Jo kill 
scale, will rid the trees of all fungus 
spores that may be carrying over on -the 
trees, again if these trees are well spray¬ 
ed and well covered with this caustic so¬ 
lution, at blooming time the spores that 
may be thrown off 'from the toad stools 
in the spring cannot get a foot hold on 
the trees. Another precaution is to so 
fertilize and cultivate the trees as not to 
produce a heavy foliage, also trim all the 
trees so as to be open in the middle when 
carrying a load of fruit so as to admit 
as much air and light as possible. 
This I believe covers a list of insects 
and fungus pests that cause the worst 
trouble to the peach grower. The 
same ones that we have here, trou¬ 
ble them in the north also Georgia, 
Alabama and Texas. Besides in the 
north and in portions of the other states 
mentioned they have peach yellows and 
rosette neither of which have ever been 
known within the state and either one of 
which is more serious that all of the pests 
