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MONDAY AFTERNOON. AUUST 13. 1923
Remedy for Peach Borer
Proves 100% Effective
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Q O V E R N M ENT investigators
'"* have finally found an effective
weapon to use against the “Peach
1 Borer,” an insect which has been
causing an annual loss of about
$10,000,000 to peaches, plums,
prunes, nectarines and almonds.
“Paradichlorobenzene” is the scien
tific name of the discovery, but it
is probable that it will be known
by its shorter and less formidable
name, "paracide."
Two men are jointly responsible
for the discovery and its develop
ment. They are Dr. A. L. Qualnt
ance, Entomologist in Charge, Fruit
Insect Investigations of U. S. De
partment of Agriculture, and Dr.
Alvah Peterson, Assistant State En
tomologist of New Jersey.
The Peach Borer has been one
of the orchardist’s most power
ful enemies. Until the develop
ment of paracide, the one means
of combatting it was by cutting it
out of the tree with a knife or
digging it out with a stiff wire.
Both methods were expensive,
tedious and uncertain. Oftentimes
these crude methods caused as
much damage as the borer itself
and frequently resulted in shorten
ing the life of the tree.
The Peach Borer is a white worm
which feeds on the outer layers of
the tree trunk or large roots, and
may be detected by masses of
gum containing sawdust-like parti
cles which exude from the trunk
near the ground. Later it becomes
a moth which lays many eggs, but
it is as a worm that it is destruc
tive.
Paracide should be applied in
the fall. Early October is best in
the South, late September for
West Virginia and the Ozarks, and
early September in the North. At
these times the larvae which would
mature the following spring can
be killed. The ground around the
tree is made clean and smooth,
and one ounce of the material is
strewn in a circle that is every
where about two inches from the
trunk. It is covered by a few
shovelfulls of earth which are
patted down by the back of the
shovel and left for at least six
weeks. The earth mound is then
removed. Paracide volatilizes un
der the ground and forms a gas five
times heavier than air. The gas,
completely encircling the tree,
b smothers the pest but unless
wrongly, applied does no damage
to the tree.
Careful records show that the
treatment costs about 2 cents per
tree for labor and material, and
that results are nearly 100 per cent
effective. In one large orchard 22,-
000 trees were treated by 50 men in
three days, and in some 300 trees
examined later only one Borer was
found.
Forty one who ran away from
a nice, clfan, cool Illinois in
sane asylum certainly were
crazy.
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Mutton
And the usual tempting fresh
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we have to offer you, but the
thought
OF BRAGG’S
suggests the various meats,
groceries, fruits, vegetables,
etc.
Please read the little an
nouncement printed on the
back of each ticket we send
out, on every package you or
der.
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