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Professor Slingerland of the Cornell Experiment Station has done 

 more work on the codling' moth than any other living person, and 

 natvirally his results should attract first attention. He has published 

 his results in Bulletin No. 142, entitled "The Codling Moth," and on 

 P3-&S 35 of this bulletin he says ; "Unlike any other moths, the Cod- 

 ling Moth is not attracted to lights. This has been demonstrated 

 several times by careful experiments with trap lanterns in- orchards." 



Prof. E. A. Popenoe, of Kansas, Entomologist, says: "Moth 

 traps" in orchards are entirely useless." 



Prof. S. A. Hoovei*, Warrensburg Normal, says : "I have never 

 recommended Mr. Haseltine's trap lantern for any purpose whatever. 

 I have tried it but little, and my trial was not favorable to the lantern 

 for catching the Codling Moth. I do not endorse the lantern. 



S. A. HOOVER, Dec. 19, luci. 



I have had one of these traps going in our orchard since the blos- 

 soms fell, and while we have caught plenty of May beetles and noc- 

 tuidae — mostly Cut Worms — I have failed to find a Plum Curculio or a 

 Codling Moth. Very truly yours, 



PROF. J. TROOP. 



The Nebraska Entomologist, Mr. S. Bruner, says : "The moth 

 traps have no value to the orchardist." 



Prof. Smith, of New Jersey Agricultural College, says of the New 

 Jersey man : "He has been told better again and again, and if he will 

 not learn except by experience, the best thing for him is to get that 

 experience and get it over with." 



Experiment, Ga., April 22, 1901. 

 Prof. J. M. Stedman, Columbia, Mo. : 

 Your letter of April 19th is at hand. 



I am very glad to learn of your position in regard to the Hasel- 

 tine moth trap. It is unnecessary for me to say that I indorse entirely 

 your sentiments about this afifair. I would also state that Mr. Hasel- 

 tine has used me in about the same way that he has you ; that is, he has 

 quoted only a part of the letter I wrote him, and has omitted to insert 

 in his advertising matter my opinion of such traps in general. 



Yours ver}^ truly, 



A. L. QUAINTANCE. 



Prof. F. M. Webster, of Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 says : "I have known all along that this thing was a fraud, and all 

 the letters I have received relating to it have gone into the waste 

 basket." n 



