Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-10-30

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vented from singing any more fruit
effects, and operates chiefly through the
hogs picking up all the wormy fruit as fast
as it falls, and thus preventing the larva of
the curculio from going underground, and
generating new brood Of curculio to
sting the fruit at a subsequent period.
We propose in the following paragraphs
IA series OF thirteen statements of the sue
cess of as many individuals in DESTROYING
bugs with hogs), without at all under
valuing the first method, to demonstrate
by plain, hard, practical facts, that the
second of these two methods produces
most gratifying results when Systematically
carried out for series of years, even with
out any regular EARRING of the trees. The
only exception to be made is in the case of
the cherry, which, unlike all other stone
fruit, does not fall prematurely to the
ground when bored up by the larva of the
curculio. Renee, so far as regards the
cherry, we must depend entirely upon
the Earring process to subdue this insect.
But the plum curculio and its allies are
not the only insects that we can success
fully attack through the fundamentally of
the hog; neither is stone fruit the only
crop that can be protected in this manner.
For fifteen years or SO, pip fruit, namely,
apples, pears and ounces, have been
more or less deteriorated by the apple
worm or larva of the codling moth bor-
ing into their cores, and filing their flesh
with its loathsome excrement. Unlike all
the snout beetles that infest stone fruit in
America, this is an imported insect, which
was originally, about the beginning of
the present century, introduced from
Europe into the Eastern States, whence it
has gradually spread westward into the
Valley of the Mississippi. The facts
which we shall presently quote prove
that hogs are death upon this in
sect, as well as upon the plum curculio,
they fall, and greedily devouring them
the wholesomeness of their living inhab-
itants 1t is not at all improbable, either,
that hogs may pick up and devour the
larva of the codling moth after it has left
the fallen fruit, and while it travels for the
trunk of the apple tree. For instead of
going underground, like the larva of plum
clrculio, this larva spins cocoon above
ground, and usually in the chinks of the
bark of the tree upon which the apple
that nourished it grew. Hence. as the
apple worm is of some considerable size,
some specimens being almost an inch long,
a hungry hog would scarcely consider it
"too small business to pick up and de-
your as many as could be found travelling
along the surface of the earth.
There are three practical difficulties in
the way of carrying out this system of
subduing ruit-boring insects by hog
power. LIST. The necessity of having all
the orchard land under separate fence,
which, of course, involves considerable
extra outlay for fencing materials 3D.
The necessity of giving up a practice,
which is conceded by the most Intelligent
fruit-growers to be otherwise objections
BILE; namely, growing other crops, such
as small grain, corn, or small fruits, be-
tween the rows of trees in bearing fruit
orchards 3d. The necessity of giving up
the modern fashionable theory of low
headed trees; for otherwise, if apple and
peach trees are allowed to branch out like
a current bush from the very root, any
hogs that range among them will mani
testify be able to help themselves, not only
to the wormy windfalls that lie on the
ground, but also to the sound growing
fruit upon all the lowermost boughs. It
is this rage for low-headed trees which
has also been the chief impeachment in the
way of DR.. Hull's Curculio catcher
machine which requires the trees operated
upon by it to be clear of all branches for
some three or four feet from the ground.
Where trees are more low headed than
this, fruit-growers in Southern Illinois
have been compelled to employ modifi-
cation of the "curculio catcher carried
about from tree to tree by two men, in
stead of being wheeled about from tree to
tree, wheelbarrow fashion, by single
hand Of course, where fruit growing is
followed as a business, the wages of every
additional hand that can in any such way
be saved, are so much clear profit going
into the pockets of the proprietor amer
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