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KILLING THE PEACH BORER. 
Every Fall it seems necessary to tell the 
story of the peach borer and how it may 
be fought successfully. With us the peach 
borer is a more dangerous enemy than the 
San Jose scale, for by proper spraying we 
can keep the latter in check and readily 
detect it in case it gets by us. With the 
peach borer the case is different, as the 
work of fighting it must be done at the 
base of the tree, and the effects of serious 
damage where the borer is overlooked will 
not be evident until the tree has been 
badly hurt. Fig. 4-19, taken from the Con¬ 
necticut Station report, shows the borer 
as it works in the root of the tree. The 
eggs of the borer are laid in midsummer 
and the moth flying from tree to tree is 
capable of laying several hundred eggs. 
These eggs are deposited either alone or 
in groups near the ground on the bark. 
In about eight days those eggs hatch and 
the young borer crawls inside the bark. 
It crawls sometimes through a crack and 
sometimes where the bark is smooth. This 
borer feeds upon the inner bark until cold 
weather, when it stops working and passes 
the Winter in the burrow or in a ease on 
THE PEACH BORER. Fig. 449. 
the bark. In the Spring the borer goes 
on feeding, and grows rapidly, making 
larger burrows. Thus if it is not taken out 
and destroyed in the Fall it will winter 
over and prove more injurious to the tree. 
The best indication of the presence of the 
borer is a mass of- gum filled with what 
appears to be sawdust. Masses of pure 
gum without this sawdust are often found 
at the base of the peach trees. This may 
be due to a wound on the bark, and is 
not a positive sign that the borer is there. 
A sure .sign is the sawdust which repre¬ 
sents the gnawing of the borer. In June 
tbe borer becomes fully grown, leaves the 
burrow and goes into a cocoon. From this 
it emerges as a moth, which is found flying 
late in June and the rest of the Summer, 
and this moth lays the eggs for more bor¬ 
ers. 
When a tree has been badly riddled by 
borers it presents a sickly appearance. The 
foliage is light green or yellowish, and it 
is often thought wrongly that such trees 
have the disease known as yellows. The 
leaves curl and the trees will not grow 
properly. They cannot grow because when 
let alone the borers work at the roots and 
sometimes completely girdle the tree. When 
not too badly gnawed the tree might re¬ 
cover with good care, hut it is never a 
safe thing to leave the borers over Winter. 
Many remedies have been proposed in the 
way of washes and paints, but in our ex¬ 
perience we have found nothing equal to 
the old plan of digging the borers out with 
a knife or wire. We make two hunts for them, 
one during the Fall and the other early 
in Summer, the latter to capture any that 
may be wintered over. The plan is to 
take a short-handled hoe, then look for 
the gum. If the* borer is at work you 
will find a mass of gum containing the | 
sawdust mentioned above. Scrape this off 
with a knife or short hoe and you will find 
the opening of the hole in which the borer 
is working. We take a knife with a sharp 
small blade and cut dowu through this 
hole, being careful not to cut across the 
tree, but downward through the bark over 
the burrow. By cutting this bark out the 
borer is easily found at the bottom of his 
burrow, and can be quickly taken out and 
killed. This work is frequently done with 
a wire, hut in a skillful hand we think the 
sharp small knife blade better. Some trees 
are alive with these borers. We have taken 
over 20 out of the base of one four-year- 
old tree. The workman should stick to 
his. job until he gets them all out. After 
the trees have been worked over in this 
way we fill up the holes around them and 
make a mound of coal ashes or clear 
dirt about a foot high around the base. 
This helps to keep mice away during the 
Winter and if kept around the tree through 
the Summer helps with the borer to some 
extent, as the moth cannot then lay her 
eggs so far down to the ground. We have 
known these eggs to be laid up on the 
trunk of the tree or even on the crotches 
of branches, and to hatch out there. 
In recent years a new method of fight¬ 
ing the borer has been suggested, and that 
is to use bisulphide of carbon. This sub¬ 
stance evaporates into a deadly gas, which 
is certain death to every breathing crea¬ 
ture. The suggestion is to find the hole 
of the borer and inject into it from an 
oil can a small quantity of bisulphide of 
carbon, and then to cover the opening of 
the hole with cotton or clay. Chloroform 
is also recommended for this purpose. So 
far as wo can learn this remedy has 
worked fairly well in fighting the apple 
borer, which is a very different thing from 
the peach borer. r fhe tunnels made by the 
apple borer are usually of such shape and 
direction that the bisulphide of carbon can 
be made to stay in them. The holes made 
by the peach borer are different, and are 
usually so filled with gum that the gas 
would not reach them. After we had been 
to the trouble of scraping off this gum, it 
would he uo more work to go on and kill 
the borer than it would bo to use the gas. 
It Is also stated that peach trees have 
been killed by using enough of the bisul¬ 
phide of carbon to kill the borers. We 
think therefore that the most effective way 
is to follow the old plan of digging out 
the borers and killing them. 
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