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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869
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360 Mr. ROBINSON said that he planted locust trees, and the borer destroyed them. Dr. WARDER—I see there are some very fine trees here in Champaign. Has any one seen the borer attack this tree in the first year ? Mr. ROBINSON—Not the first year, but I have seen them attack it the second year. Mr. LUDLOW—I have made several efforts to grow this tree. The first year this tree grows thrifty, and the second year the borer attacks it. Mr. H. DUNLAP—I have seen them working upon the sprouts of one year's growth. Mr. MINER—Does Dr. Warder say that these trees in Champaign are free from the borer ? Dr. WARDER—I saw them only at a distance. They looked thrifty and well. Mr. ROBINSON—It appears to me that as much can be done by preserving the young growth that is coming up as in planting. We know there are many places and large tracts of country where a judicious thinning of the thick undergrowth would be all that would be required in growing extensive and valuable forests. The expenses of thinning would be met in the amount of firewood obtained. The thinning out will induce stronger and more rapid growth, and consequently more durable timber. We know that timber that has made rapid growth—a strong burr oak for example—put in as a fence post, will last twice as long as timber that has become brash from slow growth. Timber grown in a crowded, damp place is nothing like as good as that which has room and light in which to develop strength. Mr. STEWART introduced the subject of birds. They were pecking holes, and pecking to death his trees, and he wanted to know what the Institute was going to do about it, and wanted to know in particular if it was the sap sucker. Mr. GALUSHA said that he would know the bird by the shape of its tongue; no other bird has such a tongue. They have a wedgeshaped tongue. QUESTION—What is the remedy against the bird ? ANSWER—Shot. Then said one, who supposed the bird was after the worms, and in particular the borer, what is the remedy for the borer?
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