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Foreign News
June 2, 1806
Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
What is this article about?
An experiment using a clod of earth around fruit tree trunks successfully protects orchards from caterpillar destruction, particularly beneficial in western districts reliant on orchard produce.
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Agricultural.
No discoveries are of more importance than those which are connected with the improvements of Agriculture. Every one who has attended to this subject is acquainted with the sweeping destruction which has been occasioned by the genius of the Eruca, or Caterpillar. Many counties of this kingdom, especially in the western districts, depend, in a great degree, on the annual produce of the orchard; and in these districts, at least, it will be of great utility to circulate the intelligence of an experiment for the protection of fruit trees, from the Caterpillar, which has been attended with complete success. A clod of earth is moulded round the top of the trunk of the trees, and this is the whole of the process. From the hour that this operation is performed, the insects, even in the most remote ramifications will begin to fall, and the tree will in a short time be wholly freed from this destructive incumbrance. It is true that the animal will afterwards attempt to renew his depredations, but as soon as he arrives at the ring of earth, which should be permitted to remain, he will hasten down the trunk with much more rapidity than he attempted to ascend.--We state this fact with confidence, but we leave to the learned Zoologist the explanation of the mystery.
[London Pap.]
No discoveries are of more importance than those which are connected with the improvements of Agriculture. Every one who has attended to this subject is acquainted with the sweeping destruction which has been occasioned by the genius of the Eruca, or Caterpillar. Many counties of this kingdom, especially in the western districts, depend, in a great degree, on the annual produce of the orchard; and in these districts, at least, it will be of great utility to circulate the intelligence of an experiment for the protection of fruit trees, from the Caterpillar, which has been attended with complete success. A clod of earth is moulded round the top of the trunk of the trees, and this is the whole of the process. From the hour that this operation is performed, the insects, even in the most remote ramifications will begin to fall, and the tree will in a short time be wholly freed from this destructive incumbrance. It is true that the animal will afterwards attempt to renew his depredations, but as soon as he arrives at the ring of earth, which should be permitted to remain, he will hasten down the trunk with much more rapidity than he attempted to ascend.--We state this fact with confidence, but we leave to the learned Zoologist the explanation of the mystery.
[London Pap.]
What sub-type of article is it?
Agriculture
Pest Control
What keywords are associated?
Agriculture
Caterpillar
Fruit Trees
Orchard Protection
Pest Control
Where did it happen?
Western Districts
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Western Districts
Outcome
complete success in freeing trees from caterpillars
Event Details
A clod of earth moulded round the top of the trunk protects fruit trees from the Eruca or Caterpillar; insects fall off immediately and cannot re-ascend the earth ring.