06 TENANTS OF AN OLD FARM. 



nients of food are cast. The eflect of all these opera- 

 tions is to ripen the apple before its time, and hence 

 we have what are known as 'wind-falls,' although 

 the wind is not necessary to bring down the precocious 

 fruit, for it tumbles in the stillest weather. These 

 worm-eaten apples are gathered up liy basketfuls, and 

 are among the earliest brought to our markets." 



" That is so," said Hugh ; " aud, now I think of it, 

 we get sucli good prices for these early wind-falls that 

 I doubt Avhether the apple-worm does as much harm 

 as I'd thought. Many's the hard word I've said 

 agin the little beggars, an' I reckon I'll take some of 

 'em back." 



"What has become of the worm?" asked Abb}-, 

 who had been carefully picking out the burrows in the 

 cut apple. " There is certainly no trace of larva or 

 cry sails here." 



" True, aud for a quite sufficient reason. When the 

 apples drop, and sometimes while they are still hang- 

 ing, our codlings escape through the opening in the side 

 (Fig. 32) and creep into chinks in the bark of the trees, 

 or into other .sheltered places, which they hollow out 

 with their teeth to suit their shape. Here each one 

 spins for itself a cocoon or silken case as thin, delicate, 

 and white as tissue paper. This is disguised or pro- 

 tected on the outside by attaching to silky threads small 

 fragments of the bai'k of the ti*ee or other available 

 particles. (Fig. 32.) 



"Three days after the completion of the cocoon the 

 larva chaugeji to a crysalis. The i)upa is a pale yellow 



