Ashes For The Borer

Peter M, (Jideoo, icelsior, Minn„ wntes as fo] Iowh iñ tho Western Pomotogist : Perhapg my mode of putting lid of borers in trees would be of interest to somo of your readers. If iioar the ground, I cono up fresh dry ashes, bo as to cover the location of the depredator, and if liifxh up, wei the UBhes and ]jit on a good layor, and bind it there with a pieco of cloth, :uul i)iv intruder is done for. Onco in Illinois I Üáíi over a hundred peaoh trees badly assailcd by them, the borer. I went to a Bteam mili and j;ot a largo nmount of dry asiles, and jnl üjui i peok to a bu.shel to to the troo, aud I had 110 further troublo with bovcra. Bomo of the trees ut the timo were pronouneed, by those who profo6Std to kiiow, tobo badly affected by the yollows; but wkatcvur tlio disease was, it quiokly disajipearal cfter the :p plicatiüii of tbc asii