Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1869 — A Chapter on Borers. [ARTICLE]

A Chapter on Borers.

Nearly every tree, plant, and cereal has an attendant borer that works in it The ones which we now propose to, notice a*c those infesting fruit and 'wade trees. There are two infecting the apple tree, neither of whifl) we hßye seen in this country, but there doubtless are orchards in which they may be found. The round headeu apple tree borer lays its eggs at the base of the tree during the month of June, and for the first year the young worms eat the soft wood just under the bark. They may be detected by the sawdust which is cast out, or by the bark becoming dead and cracked ; cutting out with a knife should be resorted to. The second year it bores directly into the tree, sometimes dear through, but docs aot emerge until the third mms, whew the laying of eggs takes place, and the same process is gone over again. Rubbing soft or hard soap around the base of the'tree in May.is said to be a preventive; a piece of soap should also be laid in the forks of theiree to he worked down by the ram. We should suppose that uounding up would answer the same purpose, butwe have never seen it tried. The flat-headed borer makes an oval particular! part of the tree, but works in we large limbs and trunk mostly. The '“lJ'eHK’djr i*else effectual, butm*st be! applied more generally. This is the most «*Pgon the Wert, and it 0o

attacks the toft mhple, oak, peach and other trees The pcaohrtice boepr i* common all over the West, and Us present* may be known by the gum exuding from the tree, at the surface of Abe ganuml. .The math toy* Its, egM d*rin| Maytiind Jnnc. i / Banking the tml ujt a flint high 1n the spring it said to be a perfect remedy. All peach trees should be exandnod «t once, and the little villains killed before they emerge In the moth state. 1 They also trouble the plum, bhtthe gum does nqt exude fninj thcir punduxc. The ftUptxrrylsalso troubled by s Stalk borer, which, in some cases, has nearly ruinad acres of plants. We do uoTknuw of any remedy accept leaving thy bfiJM ness. Those who have planted silver .or soft maple (or shade trees, and have had them ruined, will be ,plgnse<Mo learn HigtJiy rubbing the tree with hard or soft soup, as high up among the branches as possible. they will not be troubled by this Insect. Maples arc usually Attacked the first year after planting. If they then escape there seems to be no no danger afterward.— Ficharu/c. O - > t . . -