The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-02-14
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BORERS.
There is a monthly bulletin, called : The
Practical Entomologist," published in Phiia'
delphia, for sratuisous distribution among
farmers and agriculturists, of which b. "
Walsh, ESQ. ofthis city, is associate ed'.0r'
ANY one can get 1t for one year by senoing
u cents, directed to "7he Practical E"tomot-
oo;st-Philadelphia, Pa" to prepay the post
age on the paper for one year.
We have received the number for January,
which is almost exclusively occupied with an
article from Mr. Walsh on the various kinds
of borers, which prey upon apple and peach
trees, upon locusts, cdrrants. hickory, walnut
&c. ,c&. Mr.. Walsh says:
We continually see men writing and talk
ing about '.the Borer," and expounding at
great length some pet scheme that they have
Devised for getting rid of "the Borer J. ihey
might lust as well publish prolix disserta-
tions upon the habits and the requirements
of "Stock." and recommend at great length
some particular method of feeding "Stock."
Just as there are great many kinds OF
"Stock" kept by farmer-for example, hor-
SEES. Horned Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, &c.,-and
lust as a Cow will feed upon hay while Hog
will starve on it, and oontrarywlse Hog
will feed upon butchers oHai which COW
will starve on /; so there are many differ
emit kinds of "Borers." each confined to one
or more particular kinds of tree, and each re-
curing to be attacked in particular man.
nsr. in order to prevent his working mischief.
A remedy that is effsctual against one kind
of Borer will often, as know from personal
experience be perfectly useless against an
other kind. For in Natural History, howev-
ar il NAV be in Cookery, what is sauce tor
goose is not always sauce for gander.
The number OF the different species OF
"Borers'' found within the limits OF the
United States, amounts to many hundreds :;
but as only few of these are brought more
Immediately in contact with the Farmer,
from their attacking such trees and shrubs
as are peculiarly useful to him either for
their shade or their timber, or such as are
cultivated for their fruit, / merely propose in
the following paragraphs to give brief ac-
count of each Of these few. At the same
time, the best method of counterworking each
species will be explained, so far as known tC
me; and even when no certain and efectuaI
remedy can be suggested, knowledge of the
habits of the insect will often lead the intelli
gent Farmer to discover remedy for him
self.
l. ne EGASOu WY 50 MAuy khcn sopposo INA
all "Borers" are one and the same thing and
belong to one and the same species is, that
they generally only know them in the tdrrd
or grub state. which, as q general rule, Is the
state in which they do the mischief. Now. ii
is almost always the case, that larve resem
bic one another much more closely than the
perfect insects do. We observe very slmi
lar thing In the human species. Take g
thousand babies, and you will find scores o.
them that are so nearly alike, that You can
not tell which is which. Take thousand
grown men, and probably there will not be
two out of the Thousand that cannot be readi
" distinguished one from the other. just q:
the grub that you find in your fruit trees j:
the larva of the perfect insect SO is the baby
the larva of the adult man. If the reade.
will cast his eye over the eight engraving.
given with this article, of course we have
not the cuts to show these figures in the Ar
GUS -EDrToR ARGUS he will have no diff
Guilty in perceiving that each of them repre-
sents different kind or species of insect, al
though none of them are colored to the life
All these eight figures represent Borers O.
different kinds, in their perfect or winged
state. IF equally good figures had been Civ
en- of the larvae, that produce these eight
kinds of borers it would take an Entomolog
list TO see any difference between them, un
less pei haps in the case of one or two Of
them.
We perceive by this time that it is no use
10 talk about "Borsrs" generally, without
specifying the particular kind of Borer Il
which you refer. In many cases it is MOI
even enough to specify the particular kind o.
tree that they attack for although there i:
but one kind of Borer that commonly attack:
the Peach tree. yet there are no less thar
three kinds that commonly attack the Apple
tree, two of which are about equally destruct
i've and equally common, though one kind oc
ours more frequently In one section OF tn
country and the other in another section
And now, having cleared the ground bstor
Us, we will take up in succession the elgh
kinds of Borers whose Natural History pro
pose to elucIdate.
Mr.. Walsh then proceeds to describe dit
ferent kinds of borers. and the manner il
which they can be destroyed. This art
alone is worth the cost of postage on the pa
per for series of years. We have not spac
for it in our paper without excluding othe
matter that must be published-tut we can
not close this article without making one NOR
extract, as follows:
The banded Borer. (Csrasphorus cinetus,
Drury.)
ON HICKORY AFTER IT Is FELLED.
Almost every one some time or other ha
been annoyed at finding choice stick O