Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1869 — Precaution against Injurious Insects. [ARTICLE]

Precaution against Injurious Insects.

The insect enemies ofithe fruit crop are multiplying so last, notwithstanding all that has been written about their habits and the best modes of destroying them, that great vigilance will be necessary in order to olieek thei rravages. The cocoons of the apple-worm moth may now be found in the crevices of the bark of those trees on which the worms have been most destructive. Scraping and washing the bark, and digging into the eocbons, are good means of checking the increase of this troublesome insect. If borers have penetrated the wood at the base of tlie apple or peach tree, they should be dug out and bandages of some kind placed around the collars to prevent the parent moth from depositing its eggs on the bark in summer. Lime or ashes pl&ped around the trees outside the bandage will be an additional protection.— Western ral. .

—Snng fortauus have been made by entprprisingNortlierners during the past two years, from the culture of oranges in Florida.* Two brothers from New England, without funds, who rented a grove on shares have realized £7,000 during the past season, above all expenses. There is a grove in Pilatka of five hundred trees, which last year paid the Northern purchasers SB,OOO clear profit. This is a branch of trade which will be largely developed during the coming few years, and famish employment to many a Yankee water* raft. —England raises ninety-five