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FIKST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Surrouudiug fields with a border or traversing it with rows of a more 

 attractive food-plant to concentrate the attack, and perhaps permit of 

 .the destruction of tlie insect in its early stages. 



Encircling trees near the base with a strip of freshly-tarred cloth 



(six to ten inches wide), the tar to be renewed as often as it becomes 



dry, to prevent the ascent of the wingless moths of the canker-worms. 



Encircling trees with the canker-worm trap, made of a tin band and 



a muslin supporter, described and illustrated 



in the Register of Rural Affairs, vol. vii, p. 



180,* and shown in fig. 12. 



Washing trunks of trees and larger limbs 

 with soft-soap to prevent egg-deposit: for 

 the apple-tree borers {Sa2)erda Candida and 

 Chrysohothris femorata) , the peach-tree 

 borer [^^geria exitiosa), etc. 



Mounding with earth or ashes about the 

 base of peach trees, adding a few inches 

 each year, to prevent the egg-deposit- of the 

 peach-tree borer (see 1st Missouri Report, 

 pp. 48-49). 



Fig. 12.— Canker-worm Trap. Wrapping a piece of stiff paper arouiid the 

 roots of cabbage and tomato plants when transplanting, reaching to, 

 oi*just above, the surface of the ground, to protect from the cut-worms 

 that cut the stem near the surface. 



Encircling tree-trunks witli a band of loose cotton batting, to pre- 

 vent the caterpillars of the white-marked tussock-moth {Orgyia leu- 

 costigma) in their travels for food from ascending the trunks of horse- 

 chestnuts, elms, etc. 



Spreading strips of roofing paper (prepared with gas-tar) of about 

 two feet in width, beneatli the border of carpets, to prevent attack of 

 the carpet beetles [Anthrenus scroplndaricp. and Attagenus megatoma) 

 and the carpet-eating moth {Tinea jJBUionella).] 



Spreading strips of paper saturated with printers' ink, as above, for 

 the same purpose. ^ 



Encasing in paper bags, as early as the montli of May, small woolen 

 articles to protect from the Anthrenus. Attagenus, and Tinea; also. 



Pinning in sheets (linen preferable) and with edges turned over, ar- 

 ticles too large for convenient bagging, after placing in their folds 

 shavings of red cedar, scraps of Russia leather, spices, ground pepper 

 or camphor: also, 



*Also in 8th Rep. Ins. Mo., 1S76, p. 20; 6th Rep Mich. St. Pomolog. Soc. for 1876, p 

 42; Country Gentleman, xlrii, p. 393. 



+The onlv " clothes-moth" known in the United States, the larva of which constructs a 

 case for its" occupancy. It feeds indiscriminately upon all kinds of woolen clothing, car- 

 pets, furs, feathers, . tc, (Fernald, in Vanad. EntomoL, xiv, li?82, pp. 166-169.) 



