“An ounce of prevention is worth a f ound of cured 
BOROWAX 
THE FRUIT GROWER’S FRIEND. 
A Complete Protection Against Borers if Properly Applied 
to Peach, Plum, Apple, Pear and Quince Trees. 
Keep the borers out! Once they get in, no known material will destroy them 
without killing the tree, and they can be removed only by the use of the knife—a 
method that is slow, laborious, expensive and one that leaves the tree in a damaged 
condition. 
[Extract from Bulletin 235, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Stations.] 
THE PEACH TREE BORER. 
FEMALE 
In the form in which it is most familiar to the grower, the peach-tree borer is a white, grub-like 
caterpillar with a yellowish or brownish shield-like head, [see illustration], which lives and feeds in the tree 
trunks at or just below the surface of the ground and makes irregular galleries 
or chambers just beneath the bark, from which gum and sap ooze out to form 
conspicuous masses. These borers may be found at almost all periods during 
the summer, but are usually very small in late summer or fall and become an 
inch to an inch and a half in length in early summer.” 
THE ONLY RELIABLE PREVENTIVE, 
Borowax is the only reliable material for keeping borers 
out of fruit trees, as yet known. The borer is the worst enemy 
of the peach and is distributed throughout the entire country. 
It does great damage, frequently causing the tree to die outright 
if permitted to continue its work of destruction undisturbed. 
In my own peach orchards hundreds of trees were killed each 
year by borers until the discovery of Borowax, though we exer¬ 
cised great vigilance in extracting them with the knife. I am 
now treating all my orchards with Borowax, (consisting of one 
hundred and fifty acres) and my troubles with borers are ended. 
One application of Borowax will keep out the borers this 
year, and the year after. In 1906 the first peach trees 
were treated with Borowax ; but one application was made and 
the trees are still entirely free from borers, healthy, vigorous and 
productive ; although untreated trees of same age in alining 
orchards are dead and dying from borer infestation. Let it be distinctly understood 
however that Borowax mil not destroy the borers which are in the trees at the time it 
is applied. 
