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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Toward the latter end of the season, great numbers of the wormy apples fell, 

 thus reducing the count very materially. The tree being a russet. This accounts 

 for the apparent discrepancy between this count and the count from the entire 

 trees, which latter was made from spies. 



THE PLACE OF ENTRY. 



During the season of 1903, a large proportion of the whole number of larvae 

 entered at the calyx or blossom end of the fruit in the first brood, and 19% was 

 the proportion of the second brood entering at the calyx, as based on a count 

 of 800 larvae made on September 19, 1903. Strangely enough, in 1904, a similar 

 count for the first brood, made from 450 apples, gave 28 from the side and 64 

 from the blossom end or about 30% from the side. On the other hand, a count 

 of 1,000 apples, taken on August 31 and afterward, gave 235 from the side and 

 440 from the blossom end, or nearly 35% from the side. These counts were, of 

 course, made on a small number of apples, but at the same time, they are sug- 

 gestive. 



THE EGG. 



Description — The egg is flat and scale-like, being less than 1-16 of an inch ii. 

 diameter. It is first, pearly, later becoming yellowish. It requires at all times 

 close observation to find it. 



In order to make the calendar of the moth more' complete, a short series of 

 observations were made on the times of greatest activity in egg laying. I» 

 interpreting the counts given it should be remembered that some of the eggs wer« 

 probably hatched. Then, too, those found A^ery late in the season may have bee» 

 laid some time before, the cool weather preventing them from hatching at all. 

 The following table gives also some comparison as to the relative number laid 

 on the fruit and on the leaves. The number of leaves and apples examined, was 

 fifty each on each date, except August 3, when 100 leaves were examined. 



THE EGG LAYING OF THE SECOND BKOOD, 1904. 



No. of eggs 

 found on 

 Date. fruit. 



Aug. 3 3 



4 



10 



11 12 



12 



13 9 



15 22 



16 16 



20 20 



23 



26 38 



27 



29 29 



31 19 



Sept. 3 22 



6 30 



8 16 



10 10 



12 5 



14 7 



16 12 



17 5 



19 9 



21 6 



22 6 



28 13 



30 9 



Oct. 1 <N 



6 7 



18 .' 5 



No. of eggs 



found on 



leaves. 



1 



2 



6 



7 

 7 

 2 

 4 

 4 



9 

 13 

 1 

 4 

 8 

 3 

 5 



2 



1 



1 

 1 

 1 

 

 3 

 

 

 4 

 3 

 2 



