Climbing Cutworms. 



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cabbage maggot. These could be quite readily applied to the trees, 

 and formed a good funnel ; but correspondents reported that the 

 cutworms crawled over them without any difficulty. Any similar 

 funnel-shaped arrangement will be more expensive, more difficult 

 to apply, and not more effectual than the following simple device : 

 In 1885, sevei'al Michigan peach-growers used a collar of cotton 

 batting, tied around their trees and vines, with success against the 

 cutworms. When we investigated the pests at Forest Lawn in 



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146.— The manner of applying the tin-cylinder 

 protectors. 



147.— The best way to apply the cotton- 

 batting protectors. 



1894, we found several peach orchards in which every tree had a 

 collar of this batting around it. One man had thus protected 800 

 young trees, using only eight rolls of batting ; thus, the principal 

 part of the exj^ense was in applying the bands. The very ingen- 

 ious manner in which it had been applied is illustrated in Fig. 147. 



