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how easy it would be to expose the wickedness of some 

 thousands of little sinners in fifteen minutes. 



Over 200 enemies subsist upon our fruits. Here, as among 

 humans, there are degrees of wickedness, and the first place 

 must be given to the codling moth, for no orchard escapes 

 him, and he destroys a thousand fold more than he con- 

 sumes. 



The comparative few that live over winter deposit their 

 eggs in the apple blossoms, or in the calyx of the little ap- 

 ples as soon as formed. This brood mature in about six 

 weeks, and to these our efforts for destruction should be 

 directed, for every one that escapes will, in two or three 

 weeks more, be ready to deposit in the growing fruit from 

 40 to 60 eggs. 



This second brood are the ones that come down in our 

 windfalls in August and September, or are carried into the 

 cellar with our winter fruit, and spin themselves snug little 

 homes under the hoops of our apple barrels, or in the cracks 

 of our apple boxes, to come forth in spring a delicate, inno- 

 cent-looking little moth, ready to do her part in the great 

 concerns of life. 



On leaving the fruit in autumn, they hide in all sorts of 

 places. The large family Bible lying on our center table 

 became the home of one in the crease of its binding on the 

 side next the table, the worm leaving the apple dish on the 

 same table and finding that hiding place. He evidently 

 thought it a secure retreat; perhaps he went on the suppo- 

 sition that we had a smaller and more convenient volume 

 for daily use. 



A careful scraping of all loose, rough bark from the ap- 

 ple trees, removal and burning of all rubbish from the 

 ground beneath, and examination or burning of barrels in 

 which apples have been stored, will destroy very many of 

 the early crop; then to catch the first brood of worms as 

 they leave the fruit. The best means known is to place 

 bands of cloth or paper around the body of the tree, holding 

 them in place by two or three tacks. Nearly all the worms 

 leave the apple while still on the tree, and crawl downward 

 in search of a hiding place. If the loose bark has been re- 



