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JARRING FOR THE CURCULIO OF about 6 Inches wide by 8 inches loi>g.
THE PEACH AND PLUM.
Nearly every one knows that peach
es and plums, in common with certain
other fruits, are apt to be "wormy/*
and though fair externally, worthless
within; but not nearly so many know five hands.
One end of this is thoroughly padded
with rubber or sacking, and in the
oenter of the other end a hole is bored
into which the end of a light and
strong poie, about 8 or'10 feet long is
fitted. Each jarring .gang consists of
Pour of them which' car-
how these worms gained entrance in
to the fruit or realize to what a serious
extent the growers and marketers of
fruit are injured by them. These
Worms are the young of a small, gray
ish beetle called the plum curculio, be
longing to the greet group of weevils
or snout beetles, in which the head
is prolonged into a snout. This par
ry the shoot may be women or chil
dren, the fifth, who handles the bump
er, must be a man and able to act with
some judgment The frames are then
lifted by the carriers and brought to
gether around the trunk of a tree. The
man gives it one quick and decisive,
but not too hard, jar with the padded
end of his pole, and the carrying gang
ticular specieB is about one-eighth of immediately walk to the next tree,
an inch long and has all parts of Its
body protected by a very hard, rough
ened shell. It has in some sections of
Georgia become as much of a necessity
to protect the fruit crop from the cur- ■
culio as from the San Jose scale or
brown rot, and the problem which thus
confronts the fruit growers is as per- 1
plexing as any other. Small home or- 1
chards of from one to one hundred
trees often suffer a much greater pro
portionate loiss than those of commer
cial size, and oftentimes it is, on a sin
gle tree, impossible to find a peach that
has not been injured or rendered en
tirely worthlbss by this pest.
The beetles pass the winter in shel
tered situations amongst the grass and
weeds around the orchard and in the
fallen leaves, etc., in Borne neighbor
ing woodland. They appear on the
trees with the first blossoms, and dur
ing the first few weeks, before the
young .peaches have formed, the bee
tles obtain their food by nibbling the
opening buds. Later they transfer-
their atetntion to the tender fruit, and
as soon as this has fairly begun its
growth the process of egg laying be
gins.
The female deposits her small white
egg in an inciBlon through the Bkln
made by her snout, in front of which
she aisq cuts a crescent shaped slit
The minute white grub hatching from
this egg works its way to the center
of the fruit and there feeds and grows,
the scar sometimes growing over so
as to be almost unrecognizable, at oth-
er times remaining open, and conspicu
ously marked by the growing extenu
ation which forraB there. When the
fruit is stung during the younger
stAges of growth it Is very apt to drop
■from the trees before half grown, but
the worms ‘continue to feed within it
until full fed, when they work their
way out, burrow into the ground, re
main in the resting Btage for a week
or two and then emerge as adult bee
tles exactly like their parents, and
ready perhaps to lay eggs for a sec
ond goneratfon in the later varieties
of peaches.
That there are at least two genera
tions of the insects annually seems a
practically assured fact, as the adult
beetles have been reared from the in
fested fruit as early as May, and tho
worms found in late peacheB as late as
September. The earliest "stung”
peaches, as has already been stated,
nearly always drop; those attacked a
little later after the Btone has begun
to show signs of hardening, cling ta
the tree and are the first to ripen,
while those stung later still ripen with
the bulk of the crop and often show no
tigns of the injury received until they
»re out open and the true state of af
fairs discovered. The bulk of dam-
, age, however, is done by those which
Itlng the fruit from the time it is no
larger than an-acorn until two or three
weeks before ripening, and it is during
this period that remedial measures
must be applied.
Spraying the trees with some poison
ous mixture has been recommended,
but is not generally recognized as of
any very great value. To be effective
the insect must actually eat a portion
of the poison, and as it is not a very
voracious feeder, the chances are good
for it to do considerable damage be
fore taking a poisonous dose.
There is another method, however,
which has long been in use, and
though tedious and expensive, appears
to be quite effective. This consists in
Jarring the trees gently with a padded
mallet or bumper and catching the
insects as they drop in sheets spread
below the trees for this purpose. Sev
eral growers have carried on this op
eration with seemingly very profitable
results during the past few years, and
as this appears the most promising
method of treating this pest some ac
count of operations as carried on may
be of value.
Apparatus Necessary.
Many forms of frame upon which
the sheet for catching the curculio as
they fall have been devised, but those
now in use among some of the large
growers at Fort Valley, and apparently
first introduced there by Major G. T.
Jones, appear to be the best for the
purpose, especially in a commercial or
chard. Two frames are constructed
6 by 12 feet, with a notch midway
in the side of one to receive the body
of the tree. These are then covered
.with chees cloth, cheap sheeting o,r
where the operation is repeated. One
jar of the tree is sufficient, and it
should be as Just stated, not necessari
ly so very hard, not by any means
hard enough to bruise' the baric of the
tree, but quick and-without any pre
liminary shaking. Under these cir
cumstances the curculio will be taken
unawares and is practically certain to
curl up its legs, drop ana "play ’pos
sum," feigning death, and lying mo-
tionlespS ’on the sheet’ until the end of
the row is reached, when the insects
wnich have been collected can be
swept off into a tub of water’to which
a little kerosene has been added or
otherwise destroyed. It may be found
a help to carry a small stone or
weight in the center of the frame in
order that thiB portion may be kept
depressed and to preveht a sudden
gust of wind or other agency from
lifting it and scattering the contents.
Time of Jarring.
Considerable depends on the time of
day in which these Jarring operations
are carried on, as during the warmer
hours the curculio are much more ex
cited and harder to catch than either
early in the morning or late in tho
afternoon. It is always advisable to
begin as soon as it becomes light
enough to see and work until 8. Then
in the afternoon from 6 o’clock until
dark, though not so good a time as in
the morning, is better than during
the middle of the day. To obtain the
best results the jarring operation
should begin soon after the bloom is
shed and repeated every day or two
as long as any number of the beetles
are caught
Results of Work.
The results of this jarring process,
when carried out systematically
throughout tho season have in every
case which has come to our attention
been satisfactory to the fruit grower.
Mr. J. H. Hale, who spent very consid
erable sums last year in this work,
jarring some blocks or sections of
blocks in his orchard nearly every
day from before the middle of April
until nearly June, has stated most em
phatically that he felt much more than
repaid for the expenditure of labor
and money, and an examination of his
fruit in the packing shed and pn the
trees as compared with that in nearby
orchards not jarred showed a very de
cided cTifference in his favor.
This year somewhat extensive ex
periments have been planned whereby
the spraying and jarring treatment
will be carried on side by Bide, and
at the close of the season further re
suits may be expected.
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In arranging lands for cotton, break
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Remember that cotton is a great
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