The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-06-30
GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Trouble in the Orchards.

4pplt anu tIlll tIeoS III llllS Village.
IN ifps Photograph.
had call last week from Freeman
| ,,,ridee, Esq. who reported great raw
m his orchard and that of Ira Ward,
.pect and from the description we CON
....d the depredator to be the inch worm.
/ ..eanently we clipped the item above.
! , riverside Avenue correspondent re-
.-. the canker worm as troublesome in
reality and advises the use of Paris
r Mr. Partridge came to Belfast in
$, of information concerning the pest
th, best method of exterminating it,
.- SIZE received from him the following
which will be read with interest.
we're unable to print it last week.
nridge says:
Fl week was one OF the most trying
cable and discouraging weeks in
.-c 30 wears on our farm. My fam
willing To enigrate and take al
ans chance, and the end is not vet.
.,G there was a gray, and some green
- from three quarters to an inch long
.el Qur orchard, and the crop fell
mi very many apples We're bitten and
i t~d This spring the same worms
4 .. ia A swarm. A week ago last sun
il, a.. noticed they were at work. and get
lone Paris green We began ON them
aIA morning. We had been saving
Z Of the spraying pieces in a scrap
. and none recommended more than a
4 10. of Paris green to so gallons of wa
50 we hitched up the horses, put
uerces of water in the cart and driving
4 the orchard stirred in the Paris green
set to work with two tin force pumps.
4y did fair work with the different
i ICES and the different tubes OF spouts,
1 The first tree We went under the horse
i NIB and Jared down more than 800
4 TINS on a web like a spider web. They
u-u the cart and all over us, Twenty
/ were counted on my hat. My young
4 y began to cry, 50 that | had to
n him out from driving the horses.
1 worked the pumps all day. When
4 ri water went up into the trees hun
Il would let 90 and come down from
hes and all the way to the ground.
4 nl everything was quiet they would
Il on THEN web again into the trees
4 wing the first spraying the worms
II NO and more trees We're attacked
torm> must have come down on their
md craWled to the next tree OH the
II The best thing to stop them
sa} was To let our - hens and about
EonS run. So we tried the chicks
ley We're all right the first day
ai4ht Then we let them all
ana it was a paradise for hens.
The birds came and brought
antilles, and crows came i'll for Il
and one old woodpecker would
ften and get several in his bill and
would twist and squirm, but he hop
"pHnd and seemed to enjoy the feast.
the first spraying no visible effect
he seen the fourth day after. and
raves and small apples We're going.
= trees in the upper orchard where
ave taken 90 barrels of Harvey
ngs, We're all ruined for a crop of
this year and next OF course we
t ike to give up at that, SO we went
fa>t and got a better spraying pump
>ed the Paris green ut the rate of
pound to a beef barrel of water.
Lat strength viii Kill the slugs on
les. Thursday in the afternoon and
4 lay we gave the worms good dose.
4 lay Sunday hundreds and thou>-
ire hanging down dead on their
VT the way from Is inches to Just as
ID hen can reach. BY the way we
poultry run and have seen no dam
yet. But after All the reading and
boat spraying apple trees. the facts
al IN apple leaf on top has a glazed
a and the water slides OF. Only the
Mc>t of spraying. more like foe or
Il ae rain, will do any good. and it is
Nrul if any will adhere to the upper
vi the leaf. and the worms all work
i The under side. About the only
4" To do execution killing of worm
II spraying is on the little fuzzy APP
and stems. Both are rough now and
w are apples and stems eaten. but the
attack will be on the leaves of the
wood at the extreme end of the limb
write this to give the impression
have saved my trees. My lower
4aFq is over half eaten up, and there
Sal worms enough and to spare to
all the green leaves and apples, with
FL STEMS in both orchards. and another
H. depredations will bring an end to
pies and trees here. We We're not pre-
, el TO take all the advantage that might
been taken, perhaps. There has
nothing Of the kind before in this
JA All the orchards in the near vi
Il blossomed full as well as our own.
We reach MI. Ira Ward orchards.
was some few days ahead of mine and
fi sheltered, and are three miles dis
10 northerly direction. towards Mt.
? lo Both orchards are among the
sest IN town. Mr.. Wards orchard is
Nnpped OF leaves and fruit and he
! get no apples this year. Farther on.
miles from my place, above the Will
: Il hlngsbuly pasture on the south cant
H. Waldo, several acres are stripped,
ii Ute brown color can be seen from nv
The growth is said to be mostly
. II and the same kind of worms, it is
i are there, but no one has been there
Ncnlne for certainty. We sent a