76 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



The President — Would you not recommend every man to scald 

 out his apple barrels in the spring ? 



Mr. Eiley — Yes sir, that is what I was going to do. It is needless, 

 of course, to scald your barrels unless there is something to scald 

 them for. Examine your barrels first for these little white cocoons. 

 They disguise them as well as they can, so that generally they are 

 the same color as the object to which they are attached ; but with care- 

 fulness you will find them. 



Dr. Hull — You need not scald them unless you wish, but turn your 

 barrels down, and the chickens will go for them. I have a garden 

 engine which will throw a stream horizontally 60 feet. When it is 

 directed on the branches of a tree it will throw a spray, in conse- 

 quence of the soap, to all parts of the tree. Now if 3Ir. Eilcy will 

 call to mind the fact, that if he were immersed in tobacco water it. 

 would kill him, he must admit that it would kill this moth. It 

 would kill a cow. 



Mr. Bryant — I have taken 25 or 30 barrels and let them stand 

 out a week or two, and then found abundance of worms under the 

 hoops. I do not think the chickens will answer for that, as they 

 can not get at them. The worms may be destroyed by striking on 

 the hoop. I have always found it pay to destroy them in some way. 



Mr. Eiley — The worm is generally gone before the apple falls. It 

 goes through a hole, and you will find a little brown excrement 

 around the hole. It is useless to destroy that apple. You can not 

 tell when there is a worm in an aj^ple, because there is no hole in it, 

 but you can tell when the worm is gone, because there is a hole. 



Dr. Hull — One of the best things is to use simple soap on the 

 bark. It smooths the bark ; it prevents deposit of all the borers, 

 and it prevents the accumulation of root borers at the base of the tree. 



Mr. Eagan — I know of one orchard comparatively exempt from 

 the ravages of this insect. This orchard was located almost in the 

 center of a large farm, and the fruit there is almost entirely exempt 

 from the ravages of the moth, but it is at least half a mile from any 

 other orchard. 



