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monia prunivora) is an insect which deserves more attention than it has 

 usually received. It is probable that many of the injuries which have been 

 done by this insect have been attributed to the young codling worms. This 

 insect^ usually bores just below the skin at the blossom end of the apple, or 

 at the point where two apples are in contact. The effect produced is a 

 sunken area, somewhat irregular in outline, still covered by the dead skin 

 of the apple. Observations show that it rarely bores into the fruit very 

 far; never exceeding half an inch. Mr. Baker states that the injury to the 

 apple may continue after the fruit has been packed in barrels. Dr. Felt, 

 New York State Entomologist, states that it works also upon the domestic 

 variety of plums. In appearance, the lesser Apple Worm resembles some- 

 what the Codling Worm. It is very probable — although direct experiments 

 have not been conducted to test the effectiveness of the remedy — that this 

 insect can be controlled by the same applications as those adopted against 

 the Codling Moth. 



The Apple Maggot or Eailroad Worm (Ehagoletis pomonella) has 

 become one of our most serious apple pests. It does not appear to be widely 

 distributed as yet. It appears locally in several districts, and does not seem 

 to have the faculty of spreading far from that locality. The insect winters 

 over as a little brown oval puparium, either on the surface of the ground or 

 at the bottom of barrels containing apples. The adults emerge very regularly 

 throughout the season, from early July up into September, so that they 

 affect both early and late-maturing apples. The adult is a blackish two- 

 winged fly, a little smaller than a common house fly, and may be recog- 

 nized by the narrow, white bands on its abdomen, and by the four black 

 bands across its wings. The eggs are deposited under the skin of the apple, 

 and the young maggots hatch within a week and begin burrowing and mak- 

 ing channels in the developing apple. It seems as if the maggot does not 

 tmerge until the apple is matured; there is therefore great danger that many 

 apples which appear quite free from injury when picked and packed in 

 barrels will show serious injuries when the barrels are opened. There is 

 but one brood each season. As spraying has little or no effect in con- 

 trolling this insect the best methods of control are the gathering and destroy- 

 ing of the fallen apples, which contain the maggot, and the cultivation of 

 the soil in the orchard, at intervals early in the summer, before 1st July, to 

 destroy the pupa? in the soil. 



THE FARMER'S WOOD LOT. 

 By Rev. Thomas W. Files, D.C.L., Levis, P. Que. 



" How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, 

 When fond recollection presents them to view : 

 The orchard, the meadow, Ihe deep tangled wild-ivood, 

 And ev'ry loved spot that my infancy knew." 



Many a man who, in early life, left his father's homestead to try his 

 fortune far away, has listened to the song of "The Old Oaken Bucket" with 

 keen emotion. 



It is the nature of man to 



" look before and after, 

 And sigh for what is not." 



And, in his leisure moments, when wearied with the turmoil of the busy 

 world, the fancy of the exile from home will often revert to the scenes of 

 his early life. 

 10a EN. 



