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recommend adhesive bands, because the latter have a very limited 
range of usefulness. 
Grear case bearer (Coleophora, fletehemella. Bern). 
This insect was responsible last spring for very severe injuries to a 
number of orchards at South Byron and vicinity. An examination 
of conditions early in June showed that a considerable proportion 
of the foliage was badly damaged and would drop within a few 
weeks. The operations of this insect were so severe in some places 
as to give the trees a brownish appearance when viewed from a 
distance. 

Fic. 13 Work of cigar case bearer. a, showing the spotted character of earlier work; 
b, leaf with the parenchyma entirely destroyed; c,a portion more enlarged. (Original) 
An examination in the fall showed that this species was rather 
abundant at Albion and promises to cause considerable injury an- 
other spring unless controlled by timely spraying. The cigar case 
bearer was by far the more abundant though a few specimens of 
the pistol ‘case bearer, Coleophora malivorella Riley, 
were also present in the orchard. Both of these insects are amen- 
able to the same treatment, namely, thorough spraying with an 
arsenical poison at the time the young leaves appear in the spring. 
It is important that the application be made early, otherwise it may 
be difficult to destroy the voracious caterpillars before the buds have 
been seriously injured. 
