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For baiting cutworms and wireworms, distribute poisoned g:een, 
succulent vegetation, such as freshly cut clover, in small bunches about 
in the infested fields. Dip the bait in avery strong arsenical solution, 
and protect from drying by covering with boards or stones. Renew 
the bait as often as it becomes dry, or every three to five days. The 
bran-arsenic bait will also answer for cutworms. 
TIMU TO SPRAY FOR BITING INSECTS. 
For the codling moth, the apple and pear should receive the first 
application very soon after the blossoms fall, which is also the time for 
the second treatment of the scab fungus; the second spraying should be 
given one or two weeks later, just before the fruit turns down on the 
stem or when it is from one-fourth to one-half inch in diameter. The 
first spraying reaches the eggs laid by the moth in the flower end of 
the fruit shortly after the falling of the blossoms, and the second the 
later egg-laying by the more belated moths, when the first coating of 
poison will probably have been washed off by rains. The young larva, 
eating its way from without into the fruit, gets enough of the poison to 
destroy it. This treatment reaches at the same time a large number 
of leaf-feeding enemies of these fruit trees. 
For the Cureulio of the stone fruits, plum, cherry, peach, etc., two 
or three applications should be made; the first before the trees bloom 
or as soon as the foliage is well started, the second at the time of the 
exposure of the young fruit by the falling of the blossoms, and perhaps 
a third a week later, particularly if rains have intervened after the last 
treatment. The poison here acts to destroy the parent Curculio insteail 
of the young larvee, which, hatching from eggs placed beneath the skin 
of the fruit, are not affected by the poison on the outside. The adult 
Curculio, however, as soon as it comes from its hibernation feeds on the 
foliage before the trees bloom, and later on the young fruit also, and is 
destroyed by the arsenical before its eggs are deposited. 
For leaf feeding insects in general, such as the Colorado potato. bee- 
tle, blister beetles, elm leaf-beetle, maple worm, etce., the application 
should be made at the earliest indication of injury and repeated as 
often as necessary. Fruit trees.shouid never be sprayed when in bloom 
on account of the liability of poisoning honey bees or other insects 
useful as cross fertilizers. 
CARE IN USE OF ARSENICALS. 
It must be remembered that these arsenicals are very poisonous, and 
should be so labeled. If ordinary precautions are taken there is no 
danger to man or team attending their application, and the wetting of 
either, which can not always be avoided, is not at all dangerous, on 
account of the great dilution of the mixture, and no ill results what- 
ever have resulted from this source. 
The poison disappears from the plants almost completely within 
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