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wormy fruit. The oftener this is done the better, as it gives 

 less time for the worm to escape from the apple. 



In a season like the present, when apples are scarce, a large 

 portion of them will be found to be wormy, and many of them 

 will drop ; it will be found a favorable time to get rid of the 

 worms, as we shall have comparatively but little ground to go 

 over to gather up the fallen fruit. As some of the grubs leave 

 the fruit before it falls, to seek a shelter to pass into the chrysa- 

 lis state, it has been discovered beneficial to place old woollen 

 cloths in the crotches of the trees, or wind them around the 

 branches, wherein they may creep, and where they can be 

 destroyed. The cheap, soft ropes that are used to bind hides, 

 are found when bound around trees to answer a good purpose. 

 They should be unwound from the trees in autumn, and the 

 pupes destroyed. As the practice of grinding the wind-falls to 

 be made into cider appears to be again coming into favor, it will 

 certainly lessen the ravages of the apple worm, by crushing both 

 the apple and the grub together. And although the revival of 

 this old practice of cider making, from wormy and rotten wind- 

 falls, will not probably promote the cause of temperance, yet it 

 is some satisfaction to know that it kills apple worms, and who 

 can say they arc not thus made subservient to a useful purpose, 

 by imparting a flavor to the cider ? 



