. Amateur fruit growing. Fruit-culture. of the stone. This causes the fruit to become diseased and it falls prematurely to the ground. Within the plum the growth of the larva is completed. It then goes into the ground and transforms to the beetle and soon goes to the surface and escapes. Bemedy.—WhexL the curculio gets alarmed it draws itself to- gether and falls to the ground. Advantages are taken of this peculiarity to catch and destroy it. A sheet is spread under the trees and the tree and its branches are suddenly jarred, when the beetles, which fall on the sheet, may be gathered up and de
. Amateur fruit growing. Fruit-culture. of the stone. This causes the fruit to become diseased and it falls prematurely to the ground. Within the plum the growth of the larva is completed. It then goes into the ground and transforms to the beetle and soon goes to the surface and escapes. Bemedy.—WhexL the curculio gets alarmed it draws itself to- gether and falls to the ground. Advantages are taken of this peculiarity to catch and destroy it. A sheet is spread under the trees and the tree and its branches are suddenly jarred, when the beetles, which fall on the sheet, may be gathered up and destroyed. As it is im- portant to catch as many beetles as possible before any mischief has been done, jar- ring should begin while the tree is in blossom, and be con- tinued daily morning and evening, if the insects are abundant, for three or four weeks, or until they become very scarce. Another remedy which is less laborious and has been found very effectual is to spray the plums as soon as the fruit is formed with Paris green in the proportion of one pound to two hundred gallons of water, and repeating the application at intervals of a week or ten days until the curculios disappear. If the weather is very showery three sprayings may be necessary, but gen- erally two is sufficient. It will be found that where hecs with their broods of chickens are inclosed with- in the plum orchard that they will devour a large number of the larva of the curculio. If hogs are kept in the same inclosure as the plum trees they will pick up the fallen fruit and so destroy a great Fig. 77.—«, Pari of/pluin shmving egg-pnnc- many of the larva. ture, and locdiinn, of egg. from abore\ _, nr^ TVio b, 6ectiA)n through egg-puhctare, showing r'LUM (jtODGEk. ine egg- plum gouger is a snout- beetle somewhat resembling the curculio, but readily distinguished from it by a little careful examination, it is about five-sixteenth Fig. 7Q.—Plum Curculio {Conotrache- lus nenuphar.) a, represents the
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