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follows :—‘‘ For this purpose, old sacks, old clothes (if woollen all the 
better), or brown paper may be used, but the latter is not so good. 
These should be cut into 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, and 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 scraping 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. Hx- 
amine and serape 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 ap- 
plied for the purpose of destroying any larve or chrysalises remaining 
in the crannies of the tree.” —(F’. 8. 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 kerosene emulsion; or the anti-pest 
of Messrs. Morris, Little, & Son, of Doncaster; or the soft-soap and 
sulphur compound of the Chiswick Soap Co., or many others with a 
basis of coarse strong-smelling soap which would fill up crevices and 
stifle larve within them, and an addition of some special insect 
deterrent as mineral oil or sulphur would be sure to do good. 
* «Report on the Fusicladiums and Codlin Moth,’ &e., by Frazer 8. Crawford, 
Inspector under the Vine, &c., Protection Act. Published by direction of the Hon. 
Commissioner of Crown Lands. Government Printer, Adelaide, 8. Australia, 1886. 
Price 1s. 
