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strips about eight inches in width, and of a sufficient length 

 to go round the trees. Each strip should then be folded in 

 half, and the folded edge again turned down, so as to make 

 the double fold about an inch and a half wide. The band will 

 then be about two and a half inches wide. Insert a piece 

 of cord, or, what is better, wire, in the double fold, and tie 

 round the trunk of the tree, about six inches from the ground, 

 taking care that the folds are at the top, nnd the second fold 

 placed next the tree. . . . The wire can easily be untwisted 

 to examine the bands, and twisted again to fasten them on. 

 The bands should be examined weekly as long as there is any 

 fruit left on the trees, as also on any tree which, having no 

 fruit, is yet growing near infested trees with fruit on. Rags 

 or paper should be fastened in the forks of the trees, in order 

 to trap any caterpillars that may leave the fruit without 

 reaching the ground, which, of course, should be examined 

 regularly with the others." * 



For a simple and practicable method of scrajniuj the trees so 

 as to clear away all shelters for maggot infestation, I do not 

 know of any better plan than that recommended by Mr. Frazer 

 Crawford in his pamphlet referred to below, therefore I again 

 quote verbatim, duly acknowledging the source : — " Spread 

 any old sacks or other suitable material round the tree as far 

 as any scrapings are likely to fall. Commence on the tree as 

 far as there is any loose bark, and scrape it carefully off. 

 Examine and scrape all crevices in the bark, or those formed 

 in the forks of the tree. Continue scraping until the ground 

 is reached. Next gather the scrapings carefully off' the sacks, 

 and burn or otherwise destroy them immediately. This 

 scraping should be done annually early in the winter. 



" Washing the trees. — After scraping the trees a wash should 

 be applied for the purpose of destroying any larvse or chrysa- 

 lises remaining in the crannies of the tree." — (F. S. C.) 



With regard to washes, it is really impossible to enumerate 

 the variety that are before the public that would answer the 

 required purpose. Such preparations as kerosine emulsion; or 

 the " anti-pest " of Messrs. Morris, Little, & Son, of Doncaster ; 

 or the soft-soap and sulphur compound of the Chiswick Soap 

 Company, or many others with a basis of coarse strong- 

 smelling soap which would fill up crevices and stifle larvas 

 within them, and an addition of some special insect deterrent 

 as mineral oil or sulphur would be sure to do good. 



To the above precautious should be added (where the large 



* ' Eeport on the Fusicladiums and Codlin Moth,' etc., by Frazer S. Craw- 

 ford, Inspector under the Vine, &c., Protection Act. Published by direction of 

 tire Hon. Commissioner of Crown Lands. Government Printer, Adelaide, 

 S. Australia, 188G. Price Is. 



