THE CODLING MOTH, 



ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE IONIA MEETING OF THE STATE POMO- 



LOGICAL SOCIETY BY PROF. A. J. COOK OF THE STATE 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



What wonder if some of you, upou noticing the subject of this address to be 

 given at this meeting, in view of the fact that the same theme has been dis- 

 cussed at nearly every previous meeting, did bethink you of twice-told tales 

 vexing the ears of drowsy men ; yet I offer no apology for bringing it again to 

 your attention. Our worthy secretary, so alive to the best interests of pomology 

 and pomologists, gave ex-cathedra commands that I should do so, and more, 

 that I should cover the whole ground, explaining every point both small and 

 great. The whole people demand more information, while the importance of 

 the subject calls loudly for the fullest investigation, and no less that the 

 truths, scientiGc and economic, should be scattered broadcast so soon as 

 gathered. 



Why is it that every newspaper, magazine, and association of France is at 

 present teeming with discussions of the grape vine Phylloxera? Is it the gen- 

 erous reward offered for a remedy of the evil ? Oh no! but rather that the 

 extraordinary annual destruction of $300,000 worth of property awakens the 

 most vehement effort to learn fully the nature of the evil, its cause and pre- 

 Tentive. 



CODLING MOTH. 



{Carpoeapsa pomoneUa—Linn.) Sub-order Lepidoptera, Family Tortricida. 



The Codling Moth is the Phylloxera of our fruit-men, which, to quote from 

 Secretary Thompson, destroys annually more than the State Agricultural Col- 

 lege has cost, from first to last, and will, unless checked, destroy enough in tea 

 years to pay for our State Capitol. How wise then to give it a full discussion 

 at each and every one of our meetings, till the perfect knowledge of its natural 

 history and habits is the common property of all the pomologists of our great 

 fruit State. 



I am the more willing to discuss this subject again at length, as from my 

 own researches, and those of others, I am enabled to speak more fully and defi- 

 nitely in respect to many of the phases in the history of this interesting 

 insect. 



Should I fail to be sufficiently explicit in any particular, I hope that in the 



