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greatest obstacle in the way of the development of the business. 

 A great deal of our cheap soil is very well adapted to the plants, 

 resembling the soil of the New Jersey bogs rather than those of 

 Cape Cod. The question has not been sufficiently investigated, 

 however, to tell whether or not cranberry growing will be profit- 

 able in this State on a large scale, especially as the demand is 

 somewhat limited at the present time and the output controlled 

 by an exchange. 



BUD MOTH. 



Early in May small twigs of apple trees, showing the work of 

 an insect, began coming into the office, and letters asking for 

 identification. 



From then on until the first of July, the larvae of the bud 

 moth could be found upon a fairly close examination of buds 

 or leaves. In Kennebec and lower Oxford counties, their work 

 was most noticeable but there was more or less damage done 

 in all of the fruit sections. 



CODDLING MOTH. 



As usual the coddling moth caused more loss to the fruit 

 growers than any other pest. Even where spraying was done, 

 trouble was found in controlling this pest in a satisfactory 

 manner. Some of the growers estimated that as high as 95% 

 of their fruit was free from worms and fit for the fancy grade 

 but these men were not by any means numerous. Probably 60 

 per cent, at least, of the unsprayed apples were wormy and unfit 

 for fancy pack, and somewhere in the vicinity of 20% of the 

 sprayed fruit also. 



The failure of the spray material to control this pest was 

 due in many cases to lack of thoroughness and delay in appli- 

 cation rather than to the material itself. Even with the evidence 

 of the many advantages of sprayed fruit before them, most of 

 the orchardists believe that they have not time to spare from 

 other work, to spray their trees more than once during the 

 season. 



To raise perfect fruit it is absolutely essential to spray the 

 trees immediately after the petals fall and to do so in a most 

 thorough manner, in order that each calyx cup be finely covered 



