The Red Cloud chief., 1881-02-24
How 10 Destroy the BJrer.

JAMES w. ROBINSON. ESQ, OF FIRE.
mont, ILL.,, an ex-rrcsidcnt of the III
inois State Horticultural Society, gives
the following mode Of dealing with this
destructive insect:
The eggs are deposited in the bark
Of the tree, the beetle puncturing OF
splitting the bark OK tie tree upward
or downward and n little sidcwise, the
puncture looking very much a il made
with an ordinary pocket-knife. The
eggs are usually injected into this
puncture SO deep as % be out of sight;
but not always. On young and thin
barked trees the eggs viii be pushed in
next to the wood, but in Older and
Undetermined trees they will only be
through the hard outer bark and inner
soft bark. As soon rs the eggs begin
to hatch, which is in a few DAYS after
being deposited, its enlargement csuses
the puncturc TO open. and thereby il Is
much easier detected. The young
bOrer matches o in the inner side OF
the egg and eats out q circular piece
the size Of a half-dime, and then starts
of boring upward at first, but some
times sidewise or downward. At this
stage Of development it is easy to detect
the young deprdlator by a few drops
of discolored juice of the tree exuding
from the %pUncture and sticking on The
BARK. The Larvae usually bore down
below the ground surface in the win
ter, and up again in summer, living in
the larv1 state i'm the tree nearly two
wears, then boring Out in the forIl of
the beetle. ready TO repeat their round
again. The remedy / have successfully
used is Il keep the ground around the
trunk Of the trees clean and mellow. so
that there will bc-no cracks or open
ings there for beetles TO get in to
lay their eggs in the tree, and so
that the puncture where the eggs are
Laid or young beetles Matching may be
easily seen and eggs or insects destroy.
ed. which can be done while in the egg
by merely pressing firmly on the pune
ture with a knife blade (the cracking OF
the eggs can be heard ~distinctly,) and
if Matched. by cutting away the dead
bark over the cavity first eaten out, and
killing the young worm. The borers
do not 60 into the wood much the first
year, and can be easily followed by 4
knife; but If not taken out soon after
DttCuluS. bucy Stifou.N iutUfrr Aot
entirely kill the tree, especially when
they run around just under the bark, as
they sometimes do. Or, when several
borers are in 3 small tree, they so in
lure It that it breaks over with the wind.
II the ground is well cleared and patted
Gown smooth around the tree about the
last of June, the destroying Of the eggs
and young borers will be more certain
The trees should be examined twice or
perhaps three times q year, if the borers
are very numerous, in order that the
first Matched may be killed before they
do serious injury to the trees. August.
September and October are the months
in which TO destroy them. They seem
to infest certain parts of the orchard
from year to year. while others are COM
| paratively exempt Low grounds have
been more infested with them than
higher parts Of the orchard A man
can usually examine and kill all eggs
| and borers in i've hundred or more trees
| per day. If the ground has been proper
IL prepared. and NO work in Any Orchard
has been 70 absolutely necessary.