. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. 846 THE A31ERICAN FARJIER. The great majority of young larvae reach the inner bark about September 1st, andhave generally all reached it by October 1st. The first half of October is the best time tosearch for and destroy them. Until that time they have done but little, if any damage, andtheir location is readily detected by their excretions on the trunk of the tree. They are readilyfound and despatched by shaving off the outer bark with a sharp kni
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. 846 THE A31ERICAN FARJIER. The great majority of young larvae reach the inner bark about September 1st, andhave generally all reached it by October 1st. The first half of October is the best time tosearch for and destroy them. Until that time they have done but little, if any damage, andtheir location is readily detected by their excretions on the trunk of the tree. They are readilyfound and despatched by shaving off the outer bark with a sharp knife. My plan of oper-ation has been to go over my orchards each July or August, and with a sharp hoe clean anyweeds, grass, or other litter and a little soil from around the trunk ofeach tree, and then in October search carefully and kill the borers. The beetle of the flat-headed borer makes its appearance in Mayor June, and is said, as a rule, to attack only those trees which havetheir health impaired, or have been injured in some way; also treesoverpruned, and those transplanted above the proper size for such achange being more liable to th
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