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these are kept in a basket as gathered, and if worth feeding to hogs 

 or other animals, I get rid of them in that way. If they are not r 

 I have a very convenient place where I can dump them into the 

 river, and trust, for the benefit of the people who live below, the 

 worms are prevented from transforming. That is the quickest way 

 with me. I suppose that in that way there were apples enough 

 picked off this same orchard to destroy a number of codling 

 moths equal to those I caught in traps upon the trees, making about 

 four thousand worms that were secured. Well, my crop was about 

 one hundred and seventy-five barrels of good apples, generally free 

 from the codling moth. We found but very few when we came 

 to pick the crop. 



Now, let me ask, what will be the result to me next year? I will 

 suppose that two thousand of the four thousand were females, and 

 that they lay eggs to the amount of thirty each; I believe that is 

 the ordinary estimate. I suppose that two thousand of these lay 

 thirty eggs each that come to maturity, and we have sixty thousand 

 codling moths that I have headed off. Now, supposing that each 

 one of these codling moths should have gone on to maturity, and 

 should take an apple each next year, there would be a hundred and 

 twenty barrels of apples spoiled. If my orchard should happen to 

 bear a hundred and twenty barrels of apples next year, I have killed 

 codling moths enough to save the whole crop. Now is it worth 

 doing? Will it pay? That everybody must estimate for himself. 

 I think it does pay; I think it pays to thin apples; and it pays es- 

 pecially to kill all the codling moths that you can find under any 

 circumstances. The total cost has not been over four hours' labor 

 a week for thirteen weeks. In addition to the means here indi- 

 cated, I would further suggest, that an important means of pre- 

 venting the increase of the codling moths would be to cut down 

 all the valueless cider apple trees in the neighborhood, which now 

 serve only as nurseries for their development. 



