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in early spring, and again in June. Manure and stir the soil. 
If the soil is wet, ditch or underdrain. If you crop your orch¬ 
ard, let it be with low, hoed crops—potatoes, roots, beans or 
corn, but not with sowed grain. Your trees will soon outgrow 
the lice. If you wish to rid them at once, take them in early 
spring before the buds swell, and apply the Tar and Oil mix- 
, ture, pepared thus : Equal parts Linseed Oil and common Tar 
mixed by stirring while heating ; when cool apply with a paint¬ 
er’s brush a thin coat to every part of the tree where lice are 
found, omitting so much of last year’s growth as was made 
after first of June, as upon this no lice will be found. Appli¬ 
cations first of June, of lime, also ley, tobacco water, or Quas¬ 
sia water, will kill the young lice as far as it comes in immedi¬ 
ate contact with them. 
The Green Aphis, which occasionally attacks the young 
shoots, may be effectually destroyed by dipping in, or thor¬ 
oughly syringing with quassia water, once or twice. Take 
one pound quassia chips and eight gallons water ; boil an hour. 
Tobacco water similarly prepared, is also good. 
SECOND DAY—AFTERNOON SESSION. 
The Borer. —J. C. Plumb—The home of the borer is not in 
healthy wood, but diseased portions of the tree. The eggs are 
deposited in cracks found in the body of the tree—would prune 
the tree from frost cracks and keep in healthy condition ; they 
never kill a tree directly. Apply a peck of good ashes imme¬ 
diately around the tree. 
Congar—Any thing that will destoy the eggs, will be effect¬ 
ual. Apply lye wash. 
A. G. Hanford.—There are several kinds of Borer met 
with in our orchards. The one concerning wnich most alarm 
is now felt throughout the West, I am inclined to regard as 
distinct from any described by Entomologists as “ Apple Tree 
Borer.” On the south and south-west sides of apple trees, 
especially those with long, naked trunks, strips of bark, ex¬ 
tending the entire length of the body, are discovered ; which, 
