Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-30

ground when bored up by the larva of the
curculio. Hence, 80 far as regards the
cherry, we must depend entirely upon
the iarring 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 ifteen years or SO, pip fruit, namely,
apples, pears and ounces, have been
more or lees detefiorated by the apple
worm OF larva Of the codling moth bOr-
ing into their cores, and filling 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 II
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
picking up the wormy apples as fast as
they fall, and greedily devouring them
without any squeamish misgivings as to
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
curculio, this larva spins cocoon above
ground, and usually in the chinks of the
bark Of the tree upon which the apple
that nourished ii grew. Hence, as the
apple worm is of some considerable size,
taN uRarfr,1nnu hainn oil n In oh lnUor
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 fruit. boring insects by hog
power. 1st. The necessity of having all
the orchard land under a separate fence,
which, of course, involves considerable
extra outlay for fencing materials. I'd
The necessity of giving up a practice
which is conceded by the most intelligent
fruit-growers to be otherwise objectiona
BILE; namely, growing other crops, such
as small grain, corn, or small fruits, be
| tween the rows of trees in bearing fruit
orchards. Sd. The necessity of giving ur
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
festly be able to help themselves, not only
to the wormy wind(alls that lie on the
| ground, but also to the sound growing
fruit upon all the lowermost boughs. L
is this rage for low-headed trees which
has also been the chief impedimept in the
way of DR.. Hull's "Curculio catcher
machine which requires the trees operated
upon by it to be clear of all branches fol
some three or four feet from the ground
Where trees are morS low-headed thar
this, fruit-growers in Southern Illinois
have been compelled to employ a modifi
cation of the "curculio catcher" carried
about from tree to tree by two men, in
stead of being wheeled about from tree tt
tree, wheelbarrow fashion, by a singh
hand. OF course, where fruit growing
followed as business, the wages of ever,
additional hand that can in any such wal
be saved, are so much clear profit going
into the pockets of the proprietor Amer
| lean EntOmOlO0iSt.