. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ipll BETTER FRUIT Page 43 HOW TO COMBAT WITH THE PEACH TREE BORER ONE of America's most noted peach growers, J. H. Hale, of Connecti- cut, has said: "The peach borer has killed more trees than all other causes ; Comparatively few peach trees planted east of the Missis- sippi River in the last twenty-five years have lived to produce a crop without suffering more or less from this dreaded insect. The peach tree borer has ranked as one of the standard and serious pests of the United States for nearly a century. It has been the subject of much disc
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ipll BETTER FRUIT Page 43 HOW TO COMBAT WITH THE PEACH TREE BORER ONE of America's most noted peach growers, J. H. Hale, of Connecti- cut, has said: "The peach borer has killed more trees than all other causes ; Comparatively few peach trees planted east of the Missis- sippi River in the last twenty-five years have lived to produce a crop without suffering more or less from this dreaded insect. The peach tree borer has ranked as one of the standard and serious pests of the United States for nearly a century. It has been the subject of much discus- sion in the agricultural literature during that time, and it is probable that more schemes for its control have been devised than for any other of our many insect pests. Yet in all this time there were few thorough and scientific experiments to determine the efficiency of any of these methods. This led Professor Com- stock, of New York, to plan, several years ago, a series of experiments to test the so-called remedies; and he had an orchard of nearly 400 trees planted for this sole purpose. The peach tree borer is a native of America, being found only in the United States and Canada. The peach tree is a foreign plant, but had doubtless been in cultivation for a century or more before any mention was made of its being attacked by the borer in this coun- try. Probably the first reference to this insect is that of Peter Kalm, June 15, 1749, in his "Travels Into North Amer- ica," when he mentioned its appearance near Albany, New York; and a hundred and fifty years ago it had become a seri- ous menace to the peach industry. In the years 1800-12 it became a serious pest in New Jersey. Pennsylvania and Virginia; in 1823 it was common in Mas- sachusetts and North Carolina; by 1850 it had become quite common in all peach orchards from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi River, and by 1871 had attained a similar reputation in Canada. At present it has to be combated by ne
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