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ral rule, there is but one worm in each apple, but two are 

 sometimes found in one and the same fruit. 



Remedies. — Though with some varieties of the apple the 

 fruit remains on the tree till after the worm has left it, yet 

 by far the greater portion of the infested fruit falls prema- 

 turely with the worm to the ground; hence much can be 

 done towards diminishing the numbers of this little pest by 

 picking up and destroying the fallen fruit as soon as it 

 touches the ground. For this purpose hogs will again be 

 found quite valuable, when circumstances will allow of their 

 being turned into the orchard. Abundant testimony might 

 be given to prove this, but I make room only for the follow- 

 ing from Mr. Suel Foster, of Muscatine, Iowa, whom I know 

 to be abundantly capable of forming a proper judgment: 



"I have twenty-four acres of my orchards seeded to clover, 

 and last year I turned the hogs in. I now observe that 

 where the hogs ran last year the apples have not one-fourth 

 the worms that they have on other trees. I this year turned 

 the hogs into my oldest (home) orchard.* 



"Mr. Huron Burt, o^ Williamsburg, Mr. F. R. Allen, of 

 Allenton, and Mr. Carnum, of Sulphur Springs, have also, 

 each of them, testified to me as to the good effects obtained 

 from allowing hogs to run on their orchards. 



"There is, however, a more infallible remedy, and one 

 which is always practicable. It is that of entrapping the 

 worms. This can be done by hanging an old cloth in the 

 crotches of the tree, or by what is known as Dr. Trimble's 

 hay-band system, which consists of twisting a hay-band twice 

 or thrice around the trunk of the tree. To make this sys- 

 tem perfectly effectual, I lay down the following rules : 



"1.9^. The hay-hand should he placed aroimd the tree hy 

 the first of June {in Missouri), and kept on till every apple 

 is off the tree; 2d. It should he pushed up or down, and the 

 worms and chrysalides crushed that are under it, every tveek, 

 or at the very latest, every two tueeJcs; Sd. The trunk of the 

 tree should he kept free from old rough hark, so as to give the 

 worms no other places of shelter ; and 4:th, the ground itself 



* Transactions IlHnois State Horticultural Society, 1867, page 213. 



