214 STATE HOKTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 



GAS-LIME AND CODLING MOTH. 



Professor W. R. Lazenby experimented at Cornell University with the use of 

 gas-lime as a remedy for the codling moth, and reports concerning his work : 



Last year, just about the time the blossoms were falling I spread some fresh 

 gas-lime under two apple trees. The lime covered an area a little greater than 

 the spread of the branches, and was about two or three inches deep. The 10th 

 of June another application was made the same as before. The result wao 

 quite marl^ed. Not ten per cent of the apples upon the trees so treated wers 

 affected by the iiioth; while at least eighty per cent of the fruit upon the 

 adjoining trees was injured. It must be borne in mind however, that this fact 

 does not prove that fresh gas-lime will effectually drive away the codling moth. 

 If all the trees in the orchard had been treated in the same way, the moth 

 might have worked as much injury as ever. Experiments of a somewhat 

 similar character with lime have been repeated by Dr. Hall and others, but it 

 has been found that where all the trees are sprinkled the moth is not repelled ; 

 in other words it accommodates itself to its surroundings. As a rule we have 

 a great deal more to hope from those remedial agents wliich kill the insect in 

 some form or other, than from these which repel or keep the moths from the 

 fruits. 



STORING, MARKETING. AND PRESERVING. 



GATHEKING AND STOEING APPLES. 



The following notes were made by Rev. S. B. Smith of Bethel, Ohio, who 

 owns a large orchard near Grand Rapids, Michigan : 



Getting the idea from Mr. Welcli, who is a large orchardist in Wayne county, 

 Michigan, I gathered my apples in the orchard near Grand Rapids carefully 

 into barrels by hand picking, leaving under the trees what we purposed to make 

 into vinegar, as culls. Those in barrels were drawn immediately to the cellar 

 and stored. The cellar was under a bank barn. The stone walls were two 

 feet thick, and lined with two thicknesses of inch boards nailed to studding 

 from four to six inches wide. On the side where there was no earth the space 

 was filled with sawdust. The windows had double glass, that is, set on both 

 sides of the sash. The cellar was thirty-two feet wide by forty-four feet long; 

 it was divided into three divisions by partitions; in each of these, bins were 

 made from twelve to fourteen feet long, and four feet wide. Those farthest 

 from the door were filled with the longest keepers. The barrels were brought 

 from the wagon by two men and emptied carefully into the bin, putting up 

 boards as it was filled. When so full that barrels could not be emptied into it 

 baskets were used. When full, another bin was made against the first, so that 

 one side of the first bin made a side also for the second, and so on till that 



