STATE IIOKT[CULTU]lAI. SOCIETY. 75 



I think most farmers use some kind of cauldron every week or so, 

 and on these days you might just do this as well as not. I think if 

 we paid a little more attention to scalding our barrels and destroy- 

 ing the Chrysalis we should reduce the number very materially'', but 

 I can give no hopes of reducing them by fires or lights, and I have no 

 faith in the sj'ringo which Dr. Hull recommends. ■ liely then, on en- 

 trapping the moth and killing it. 



Mr. Brown — I would like to ask whether the worm, after it has 

 got into the tree is taken by birds, and whether the greatest supply 

 we have is from the cellars ? 



Mr. Riley — Yes, it is so; the apples containing the worms would 

 drop to the ground and rot, and the worms would leave them, and in 

 such a position the}' would be sought out by birds in the winter time, 

 and few of them would escape, there being so many birds pinched 

 with hunger in the winter time. Woodpeckers and many other birds 

 live almost entirely upon such food. It is in our storehouses that the 

 brood is propagated. 



Mr. Eagan — Some of us are cultivating small fruits among our 

 apples. I would raise the query whether these small fruits will, to 

 any considerable extent, harbor these worms '( 



Mr. Eiloy — I do not think they would. They prefer the old bark 

 of a tree, or some nook of a rag, or anything else, to the living tree. 



Dr. Hull — I alluded to the syringing of the tree not as preventing 

 the worm from depositing its eggs, but 1 know that when I throw 

 tobacco water and soap upon any of the trees, it invariabl}' kills the 

 worms. If my friend Riley will take, the coming spring, and make a 

 strong decoction of tobacco water and soap, I will guarantee it ^\\\ 

 kill them, but it will not prevent them laying their eggs. 



Mr. Riley — I would suggest to Dr. Hull how continuously you 

 would have to syringe your trees to affect the moth. Now suppose 

 you come to your orchard once in a morning, you would only kill 

 what few you had not touched before. They can stand rain, and I 

 doubt whether drenching by tobacco would kill a moth. It is one of 

 the last of all insects to deposit its eggs. 



