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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April SO, 
THE PLUM CURCULIO. 
During its season we have dozens of 
questions about this insect. The Geor¬ 
gia State Board of Entomology has just 
issued an excellent bulletin, from which 
the following is taken, it being under¬ 
stood that dates and methods refer to 
points in Georgia: 
During the Winter the curculio hiber¬ 
nates in the ground. That will explain 
THE LARVAL STAGE. Fig. 205 A. 
a recent question about the use of to¬ 
bacco stems under the ground to check 
the insect. As the weather grows warm 
the curculios crawl out of the ground 
and mate. At Americus, Ga., the in¬ 
sects began to emerge the latter part of 
March, and kept on until the middle of 
April. Farther north this will be later. 
The females begin laying eggs even 
before the bloom is off the young 
peaches. This egg laying is most rapid 
during late April and May, but con¬ 
tinues more or less during the entire 
season. The eggs hatch within four or 
five days and the “worm” begins feed¬ 
ing its way into the peach—growing in 
size as it feeds. The injured peach falls 
to the ground and the worm works its 
PEACH SHOWING- CURCULIO CAVITY. 
Fig. 205 B. 
way out and crawls into the ground. 
There it changes to a beetle, which 
remains under ground about four weeks, 
when it crawls out and begins feeding 
on the fruit. There is no mating among 
this late breed, and, of course, no eggs 
are laid. The late beetles feed on the 
fruit and in the Fall enter the ground 
to remain over Winter. The female 
first eats out a cavity in the fruit and 
deposits her egg in it. The crescent¬ 
shaped mark on plums shows this egg 
cavity; see Fig. 205 B, showing the mark 
on a peach. One instance is recorded 
where a single female laid 450 eggs in¬ 
side of three months. 
Most of those who have picked 
peaches from a tree have seen the dis¬ 
gusting white worm or grub inside the 
THE CURCULIO (Enlarged.) Fig. 205C. 
fruit. Small at first, it grows rapidly, 
and as noted above runs through its 
interesting life. A picture of the worm 
(enlarged) is shown at Fig.205 A. These 
worms remain about three weeks inside 
the fruit after hatching. 
A picture of the beetle is shown at 
Fig. 205 C, and another showing how it 
feeds at Fig. 205 D. Both are considerably 
evdarged. By nature the insect is very 
shy, and if disturbed will usually curl 
up its body and drop from the tree, 
pretending to be dead. This habit is 
made use of in jarring them from the 
tree, and this is one popular way of 
fighting the insect. Sheets are put un¬ 
der the tree, which is then struck with 
a padded stick or mallet. The beetles 
fall upon the sheet, where they can be 
picked up and killed. There is a 
machine made like a large inverted um¬ 
brella mounted like a wheel barrow. 
This can be run under the tree and the 
curculio jarred into it. This bulletin 
gives the details of a jarring experi¬ 
ment. It was necessary to begin early 
in the morning, for as the air grew 
warm and the foliage dried the beetles 
began to fly and thus escaped. F'rom 
985 trees 11,626 beetles were taken, yet, 
even with this, there were only six per 
cent more unmarked peaches on these 
trees than where no jarring was done. 
As compared with spraying, the jarring 
did not pay. 
Spraying was done with arsenate of 
lead—two pounds to 50 gallons of water. 
Into this the “milk” from three pounds 
of stone lime was put, and well mixed. 
The first spraying is to be made just 
after the petals fall, and at intervals of 
10 days to two weeks later, except when 
rain interfered. There was some burn¬ 
ing of the foliage especially where the 
trees had been injured by borers, scale 
or other causes, but on healthy trees 
tliis spraying was, without doubt, suc¬ 
cessful. It greatly reduced the number 
of wormy peaches. Further experiments 
were made to find, if possible, how the 
THE CURCULIO AT WORK (Enlarged) 
Fig. 205 D. 
arsenate of lead affects the beetles. A 
gauze frame was fitted over a tree, 
which had been soaked with a solution 
of arsenate of lead. On May 11, 372 
curculios were put inside the cage. The 
tree was carefully watched, but in no 
cases were the insects found feeding on 
any part of the tree. Very few punc¬ 
tures were made on the fruit and no 
eggs were laid In, this case the arse¬ 
nate of lead acted as a repellent rather 
than as a poison. The insects kept away 
front the tree. 
CAMPHOR GROWING IN TEXAS. 
H. C., McLanc, I‘a. — I saw a statement 
in a paper a year or so ago that they had 
gone to raising camphor in Texas. This 
article said they would sow or plant the 
seed, and when it was two years old would 
cut it off with a mowing machine, and 
then distil it, and that they got a better 
quality of camphor than the imported. Can 
The R. N.-Y. tell how much truth there 
is in this statement? 
Ans. —I am inclined to question the 
reported culture of the camphor in 
Texas, and using a mowing machine to 
cut the young trees. While it may be 
possible to do such a thing, it would 
certainly not be practicable, and would 
be “flying in the face of nature.” The 
camphor is not a shrub, but a tree of 
handsome proportions. I have trees 
which are 30 inches in circumference and 
60 feet tall. The first few years it grows 
slowly, but when well started soon at¬ 
tains a rapid growth. A camphor two 
years old from the seed would hardly 
be more than a foot high, and the size 
of a lead pencil. When this item first 
appeared, I wrote the persons who were 
supposed to be conducting the experi¬ 
ment, and have never received a reply. 
The camphor is as much at home on 
the Gulf Coast as in China or Japan. 
It is acclimated and yearly ripens its 
fruit. I am decidedly of the opinion that 
it would be profitable to grow it on a 
large scale and manufacture camphor 
gum. c. J. EDWARDS. 
Louisiana. 
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'T'HIS Hoist is something new, and is designed 
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UNLOADING IIAY and GRAIN, 
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The combination of movement and the 
method by which it is 
accomplished, makes 
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now on the market. 
For further particu¬ 
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