BAGGING AND TRAPPING PREVENTIVES. 33 



month of July, the larva from which burrows into the fruit to feed upon 

 the seed, and causes the grape to shrivel and dry. The grape-berry moth, 

 Eudemis botratia (Schiff.), which deposits its eggs in June, the larvae 

 from which destroy the grapes in July by feeding within them and bind- 

 ing them together with patches of their webs and excrementa. The grape 

 curculio, Crapoiiius inccqualis (Say) — a small snout-beetle which punc- 

 tures the fruit for the deposit of its eggs, causing its premature ripen- 

 ing and dropping to the ground. Several species of the larger Hymen- 

 optera, as the honey-bee, wasps and hornets, feed upon the ripening 

 fruit. 



The method of bagging, and the cost of the bags is told by a corre- 

 spondent of the New York Tribune: 



Our practice has been to bag very early after the blossom falls, which 

 protects the fruit from all destroying depredators and influences, one 

 only excepted, which is cracking when rain-storms last several days or 

 a week; but such storms seldom occur when grapes are ripening. The 

 bag is torn down just far enough on either side to lap the two ends over 

 the branch above the cluster and a pin put through on the under side 

 of the limb at each corner, being careful to draw the bag over the torn 

 ends to exclude water. The lowest corner should be pierced with 

 the small blade of a pocket-knife for drainage. This is better than 

 a round hole made with an awl, as it closes and excludes the spores 

 of fungi and small insects. We order two-pound bags for two-thirds of 

 the number needed, for single clusters; for the other third, four-pound 

 bags to be used over two clusters occurring together. They can be 

 ordered from any paper warehouse as cheaply as from the factory. 

 Two-pound Manilla bags cost ^i.8o per i,ooo; two-pound imitation 

 Manilla bags, $1-50 per 1,000; and 10 to 15 per cent advance on each of 

 the larger sizes. By counting the clusters intended to be bagged on an 

 average vine, the approximate number needed can be readily ascer- 

 tained. 



A Bottle Trap for various Garden Insects. ■ 

 Charles Downing mentions the following as an effectual trap for all 

 sorts of garden insects. Fill wide-mouthed bottles half full of a mix- 

 ture of water, vinegar and molasses, and suspend them among the trees. 

 In a short time they will be full of insects, and must then be emptied 

 and the liquid renewed. An acquaintance of his captured in this way, 

 more than three bushels of insects in his garden in a season, and pre- 

 served it almost entirely free from their ravages. — J. W. Manning, in 

 Trans, Mass. Horticultural Soc. for 1883, p. 14. 



Poultry in Orchards. 

 The presence of large numbers of chickens, turkeys and ducks in 

 orchards and vineyards seems to be the most effectual means yet dis- 



