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the above rules were recognized. Under two hay-bands 

 which were kept around a single old isolated tree through 

 the months, of June, July and August, I found every week of 

 the two last months an average of fifty cocoons. 



"I have often smiled in my journeyings through the State 

 to see the grin of incredulity spread over the face of some 

 unsophisticated farmer as I recounted the natural history of 

 this codling moth, and urged the application of the hay-band. 

 Magic spell or fairy tale could not more thoroughly have 

 astounded some of them than the unmasking of this tiny 

 enemy and the revealing of the proper remedy. 



"The burning of fires has been recommended, under the 

 supposition that the moths will fly into them and get de- 

 stroyed. I have no faith whatever in the process, so far as 

 it regards this particular species; for though it is true that 

 the moths fly and deposit their eggs in the evening, I do not 

 believe they are attracted to the light as are some others, for 

 I have never been able thus to attract any myself." 



WEIR'S CODLING MOTH TRAP. 



The more modern and better remedy is "Weir's Trap," 

 made of three narrow boards or old shingles, movable on a 

 centre screw, and fastened to the trunk of the tree. The 

 American Pomological Association, during its session at 

 Richmond in 1871, appointed a committee composed of three 

 members — Charles Downing, Mark Miller and P. T. Quinn. 

 The committee reported tbat on examination Weirs Codling 

 Moth Trap was found efficient in trapping this most destruc- 

 tive insect. 



CLIMBING CUT WORMS. 



Orchardists in Spring frequently find the hearts of their 

 fruit buds — on young trees especially — entirely eaten out and 

 destroyed, and this circumstance is attributed to various 

 causes, winged insects, beetles or slugs, or even to late frosts, 

 unsuitable climate, etc. Never have cut-worms received the 

 blame, all of which should be ascribed to them, for tbe game 

 hold of many on a sandy soil in early Spring is the fruit-tree, 



