Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870 [PAGE 326]

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312 leaves. That is the best remedy. The Tussock moth can also be caught now. QUERY—I find a white aphis on evergreens, especially on white pine. How are they best killed ? EiLEY—There is a scale insect on the leaf and a woolly bark louse on evergreens. Mr. Dunlap says syringing with soap and water kills them. I would put tobacco in it. The scale insect may be killed by knocking off and burning the dead leaves. The apple curculio does not attack the peach that I know of. It is abundant on the wild crab apple. It has a shorter proboscis and four humps instead of two. The plum curculio makes its mark and lays its egg. This insect bores into the fruit, goes to the ground, and then comes out. The only way to destroy them is to jar the trees and catch them. In Yineland, Dr. Trimble informs me that united action destroyed nearly all the insects. The best time is early in the morning. It is necessary to be united and act together. I don*t think they fly more than two or three miles. The wild plum is a source of curculio supply, and it occurs in hickories in the hulls. It was seen here in the west in one locality at least 25 years before any trees were planted. The wild plum is a good place to catch them, and a row of plums a good thing to gather them on. The codling moth is easily managed, as they have proved by having fair fruit in Vineland this year. Catch them in the cocoon under the bark of the trees or other sheltered place. Hay bands are good for them to gather under. So are rags or cloths put about the trees, or in the forks of the trees. It is single brooded in Europe, but is supposed to be two-brooded here. Pick up the fallen apples or have hogs or sheep do it. They appear about May 1, or earlier, and lay eggs in the calyx of the young apple. The worm is about three weeks maturing, and there are several generations in a year. The apples gathered will send out the perfect insects. Kill these as the most dangerous. Distinguish between insects, so as to not kill your friends. Harris' Insects Injurious to Vegetation is a good book. The American Entomologist is desirable. The sparrow has been introduced as a remedy. In England it is the commonest bird, and is looked upon as a nuisance, rather than a benefit. It is doing no good to the fruit or grain-grower.