The Chkrky P'kuit-Fly. 4-1 



fruit. One German writer states that "it is known to those house- 

 wives who wisli to can clierries tliat the maggots leave the fruits as 

 soon as they have been soaked in water for several hours ; and tliis 

 precaution can therefore be taken with the cherries to be eaten fresh 

 in those years when the cherries are badly infested." We wish the 

 autlior of this suggestion had been a little more definite, for we are 

 in some doubt as to what is to be done with those fruits from which 

 tlie maggots have emerged. Are they to be canned or eaten with 



the rest - 



MARK VERNON SLINGERLAND. 



