Where there is but one brood the remedy for the insect is compara- 

 tively easy. It consists in spraying the trees with Paris green (combined 

 with Bordeaux mixture for the purpose of warding off fungus diseases) 

 just after the blossoms have fallen and again a week later. This will 

 ensure the destruction by the poison of the majority of the young larvae. 

 Most of those that escape can be got rid of by gathering up the fallen 

 fruit and feeding it to pigs or burying it deeply in the ground. An easier 

 plan is to let the pigs have the run of the orchard, and they will make 

 away with the fallen fruit themselves. 



1. The Codling Moth and its work, 

 showing the different stages. 



Fig. 2. Apple injured by the 

 burrows of a Codling Worm. 



In all that section of the country where there are two broods it is 

 necessary to adopt further measures in addition to the above. One plan 

 is to spray the trees again towards the end of June and at about ten days' 

 interval till the end of July. A more effective remedy is to bandage the 

 trunks of the trees with burlap, sacking, or other coarse material. The 

 bands should be about six inches wide and attached to the tree by a string 

 tied tightly around the middle, leaving the top and bottom loose, and 

 fastened to a nail. The worms will go to these bandages as a convenient 

 shelter under which to form their cocoons, and can readily be destroyed. 

 It is necessary to remove the bandages at least as often as every ten days ; 

 the larvae attached to them may be killed by passing the bandages 

 through a clothes-wringer carried on a wheelbarrow. Many, however, 

 burrow into the bark to make their chrysalids, and require to be got rid 

 of by scraping with a wire brush. By adopting these measures the second 

 brood of worms, which is by far the most injurious to the fruit, will be 

 reduced to a minimum. Careful spraying in the spring, continued year 

 after year, will so effectually get rid of the insect that very few will sur- 

 vive to form a second brpod, and the fruit-grower may hope to be re- 

 lieved of the labor and expense of the summer campaign. 



