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pensive, but very iiseful bandage might be made, as Eiley 

 says, by tacking strips of lath across a broad strip of cap- 

 vas, and encircling the tree with it. Where a person has 

 but few trees I tliink the best girdle would be a strip of 

 canvas on the inside of which a layer of jute or hemp fibre 

 was sewed. This could be fastened by a tack so that it 

 could be easily removed and examined for chrysalids and 

 the outside might be coated with tar so as to be a protection 

 against the canker worm as well as codling moth. It is 

 always to be remembered th«t the larvse of the second 

 brood are usually more or less abundant in the barrels or 

 bins of stored fruit, and that from this source alone moths 

 enough mia^ht come to stock the orchard the next season. 

 On this account all barrels or bins as fast as emptied should 

 be carefully examined and all chrysalids destroyed, and see 

 that your r.eighbors do the same. The codling moth has 

 quite a number of natural enemies such as ants, cockroaches, 

 and other insects, as well as birds, and Eiley has described 

 two parasites, one of which attacks the cocoons and the 

 other the moth just before or as it leaves the fruit. 



Another of the Lepidoptera, the Bagworm, Th]/ridoj)te- 

 rix epliemerce formis, Hcnc, sometimes attacks the leaves 

 of apple trees in other States, but it is too much a Southern 

 species to be found doing mischief here. But there is 

 another moth, CUsiocamjnt Americana^ Harris^ that does 

 live in Ycrmout, as well as in many other places, the larva 

 of which is known as the tent caterpillar. Usually any 

 extensive -ravages of this insect indicate lack of care and 

 watchfulness rather than anything else, and any one who 

 can not succeed in keeping this pest away had better give 



