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any complaint. 1 am quite satislied that there is no danger to the bees though at 

 ■first 1 was certainly afraid as to what was going to happen. 



Father Leopold has just asked me when you apply these mixtures for the 

 Apple Maggot. The first application should he made as soon as the adults begin 

 to appear. That is part of the secret of success. You will find that it will take 

 about ten days for the adults to be sufficiently matured to lay eggs, and in that time 

 they must be destroyed. Then there should be another application two weeks 

 after the first. In Father Leopold's district it would be approximately the loth 

 July for the first application. The second application should come about the end 

 of July. We applied the first on the 14th to 16th, and the second on the 2nd 

 August. The adults emerge early in the warmer parts of the Province. 



The Peesident : We are discussing the Apple Maggot, and as I do not think 

 that it is a subject which will come up in any of the later papers so far as I can 

 see, it is very important that it should be fully discussed at the present time. We 

 are very glad to have with us to-day Prof. Brittain, Provincial Entomologist of 

 Nova Scotia, in which Province the Apple Maggot has recently been discovered. 

 I am sure you will be glad to hear from him a few words as to the occurrence of 

 this insect in Nova Scotia. I should like to take this opportunity of heartily 

 welcoming Prof. Brittain to our meeting, as I think this is the first one that 

 he has attended. 



Peof. Beittain: It was not my intention to say anything about the Apple 

 Maggot. Although I have done a little work this year, it is far too early to say 

 much in that connection. We might however say something about its distribution. 

 The main fruit belt in the Province of Nova Scotia consists of the Counties of 

 Kings and Annapolis, which compose respectively the Oornwallis and Annapolis 

 Valleys. . We received a great many reports of the Apple Maggots being found 

 in these places. One man reported that he was certain that he had it, but when we 

 went out we found that it was the Green Fruit-worm. We had dozens of reports, 

 but were never able to locate any manifestation of the Apple Maggot in the main 

 fruit growing sections of Nova Scotia. On the other side, however, in western 

 Annapolis and Digby iCounty, and in the County of Hants, we have already located 

 outbreaks. Late this fall I got a report that some of the insects had been found 

 near Windsor in the Avon Valley, and we found there several orchards extremely 

 badly infested. They were very small orchards and none were sprayed. We never 

 found the Apple Maggot in the Province in an orchard Avhich had been sprayed 

 except in one case where we found two trees infested. The maggot is confined to 

 those districts where very little spraying is done and no care is taken and where 

 orchards are not considered important. In the €ounty of Digby, no spraying is 

 done, and there the insects are Avorst. Last year one of the inspectors found 

 maggoty apples in Yarmouth County. He went back this year and was not able 

 to find any although probably there were some present. Although we have found 

 the maggot in several places we have not found it in Kings or eastern Annapolis. 

 We found it in districts quite remote from each other. One inspector brought in 

 some fruit from North Middleton, away in the north woods five miles from any 

 dwelling of any kind, which were simply full of maggots. So that it looks as if 

 this insect is not a new one but a pest of pretty long standing in the Province, 

 but it has never been found in the best fruit counties. There has at least been no 

 outbreak of any importance or we would have located it. Our inspectors visited 

 every farm of importance this summer and we have been doing a little work in it 

 of a preliminary character and received some results which are suggestive for 

 further work. That is all we can say about it. 



