The Republican journal., 1869-07-01
Destructive Insects -Borers and Bugs.

lhe >:tnc genial warmth that promotes vegetable
.o"'h puts into liit myriads Of insects 10 feed
0ton and destroy the other. Hence every culturst.
ID h. would have crop, mrst repeat the acts of the
n,itnt jews who. in building their city laid the
walls with one hand and fought the enemies with
r.r other Some of these enemies-thcir nature.
i.bit, and means for destroying-wi be noticed
..w and from time to time.
rHF BOEERs These are many. of different ma
..lrc4 and habits, and requiring different treatment
ro begin with TIN, very worst kind there is
Fnr rwo-LEGGFn HUMAN BoRER. He bores
,pi your car With hi, endless twaddle eating out
uu,lI y8ur patience and Your precious time; bores
5.i. yaur button-hoc~, Ia have yOu sign his papers
t,r ana office he j. undc~crNng Of bore> into your
.achot, Ly whcedlin9 YOU into endorsing his bank
rld paper. borrowing your money, and contract
.n4r uey paper and thousand other dehts-:l with
..il rcurn b0re> into your >ympathies by pleading
,.,e, hc he never experienced; bores into your be-
p,vohu.e. to gel a good salary tor himself by the
tarpl fut often bogus plea of aiding public ohari-
re- LII iine. All the lice and frog plaques Of Egypt
were nothing 10 these human borcs. They are the
real vampires Of tabled mythology, who have suck
al lry the veins of many person as they will of
many more. unless shaken off and slain. But here's
t4e rub. The salt ashes, coa-tar. Nr., which des-
itQy the brute kinds he laughs TO scOrn: and even
t,e tobacco, which destroys most verlnin, causes
tIIn to smile IN yonr face and ask for a "chaw.
the only remedy we know Of j. the one devised 10y
Iuc old vicar OF Wakefield into whose domestic
counties these horc> had put their vampire bills ;
i-uetlug them an umbrella or something OF value
caused All these cousins of the fourteenth degree to
i,rse1 10 come back to return it, So, as we can
.ly from too much experience Of this sort if you
will l-il Them from 81 TO $1,000 or in proportion
tud1-a their paper and have to pay it, you will find
thal for a time Al least, they will leave YOU and
Tore away somewhere else.
The apple borcr q, we usually see it in tht apple,
pyar ounce trees, &c, i, le>hy. white grub,
abch enters The tree just at the surface Of the
ground where the bark i, tender. either grdling
the tree under the bark, or pcrforating the wood
through and through, killing the tree. 1t comes
there in thi- way: Early in June, a brown and
Is bite striped beetle or butterfly half an inch long
living in the night only from tree to tree, after its
,ol deposits lis eggs during June and July, in the
nllAr of The tree which Is At the surface OF the
round These eggs. on Matching, become these
-rub>, worms, borerN, they yariously called !;
mall ii first bat, growing by what they feed on"
hey attain SIZE Of an inch long sometimes
maining in the tree two or three years i'll this Worm
form. when they come out of their holes in the but
r-r1y state. to lay their eggs rs their mothers did
t-fore. Hence these horers. like pretty much all
l evils III this world, are very small nj first, inys-
Tide to- the naked eye; the first signs of them look
ike small pin puneture> in the bark As they grow
and progress in their work. tine PARTICLES Of bark
ttS a1pear IN the-e holes 50 that hencclorih YOU
AN alway- tel their place and progress by the
.iuulnt ot tlips they throw out of the hole. Won
follow a carpenter by his, and squirrel by his
.liH Just os ali crime is sure 20 have lis chips for
ttlc,'lion
The destruction c,,l,ed hv this little savage is i'm
u4,u~e, ',y tie whole tribe not les than some mil
IIn- NJ dill;r~ In thi> country, every wear; for
which here lr- TWO romeaie~-preVcntio and cure
IAe HIST is the various means which may prevent
fhc i} drpo>iting her egg, in the tree. As above
-ttei this does not happen before early June Our
method is, in May. TO examine the trees carefully
II around, from the ground foot upwards and,
u uo Traces ol borers are found, 10 put small bank
.0g Of coal ashes. six inches high. around and
-aluSt The tree, and we have found it perfect pre-
,rutye. Those who haven't coal l,l,, could use
nosi ashes or lime mixed with earth. Probably
-nlle earth none-any solid substance to keep the
ii, from the hark-woud answer. some Use ttrred
l.teI cotton. old cloths rOul-tar paint &c, More
depends, we think. on using the particular thing
-,asonahy and well, than on The nature of the
tuhg. Once week. all through the summer, ex-
anime the Trees if Won lind their chips, large or
small look after
ttRF For This We have always found two rem
e,hr~ successful. II the worm has not gone great
distance from the hole, small wire or piece of
Nhalebone will easily destroy it. But often it has
4 l
reached by these means Then with pint block
}jn svringe-one with bent pipe is most conven-
leut-toree a. mach boiling water as YOU can into
the hole. so directed to make the water follow
The torcr> path and fitting the instrument to the
hole by little putty, rag or something. that the
Nntrr will mol gush out by it instead of following
the passage. We have tried thi, several times anC
failed of success, aud the remedy is perfectly
harmless to the tree. You can do it with half the
u0e and labor it takes to think out and tell this tC
rou, easy as YOU may think such work is; and fol
dollar and half YOU may save hundreds.
The currant borer is somewhat similar in its ma
tale, history and rayagcs 1t borcS into the stem
I" the pith which il destroys, frequently causing
the stalk to break off. 1t is easy TO find where tn,
ln-cet is working by, early in the season, bending
HE stocks. which causes the worm ones TO break
rHNllN Uttllg tltst on just below The bad places
and burning the parts cut of, gre atty dminishc,
ltIem in the future; and is the only remedy SO far
" we know, that has ever been discovered.
BUGS, AS we have seen that among borers the
hanan sort is the biggest and the worst so among
'hc bug tribe, none are mean, so vile and des
lructiNe ms the human kind--humbugs And sc
large is his class, and SO dangerous it, nature thai
We shall sometime devote whole article to the sub
itt, a. several books might be
STRIPED OR Squash BUGS. Among inS cct bug,
his Is the most destructive, and is both the hardes
and the easiest to get rid of; the hardest if yo,
tuel TO the thousand useless things recommended
lime bitter washes, patent "bug annihilators, &c
The easiest if You the only safe and sure rene
dS-Wooden boxes, with gauze cloth coverings
lake some thin, cheap boards. like the old fashioned
luhng boards, and make boxes Is inches su,lare
and 10 high; over this tack loosely. so as to permit
'retching IN Wet weather, cheap cause or mosquito
tar cloth; put the boxes over the plants making
lhem bug-proof Al the bottom by hoeing dirt around
The sides. We will pay dollar apiece for every
bug That troubles you under this treatment, as cll
Hosi'y. The plants grow all the better; and tho
crop saved IN single year will pay for boxes a life
lht H. rs soon as bug time is past they are stored
away IN the barn, attic, or some other safe. Gry
place. We have used the same boxes. now rs good