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and is seldom seeu by daylight. It lays its minute yellow eggs in 

 the blossom end of the fruit and as soon as the worm hatches, it 

 commences to bore toward the core. The first brood of moths 

 appears just as the apples are setting, and the second when the 

 latter are half or two-thirds grown, and there are premature or 

 belated individuals that keep up a constant succession. The first 

 brood of worms seldom accomplishes more than a beneficial thin- 

 ning out of the fruit, but the second brood is often ruinous to the 

 crop. The remedy is therefore to trap the first brood of larvae 

 after they leave the fruit, and prevent in a measure the occurrence 

 of the second brood. This is done by means of bandages of hay, 

 rags or paper, which should be put around the tree about the last 

 of May and kept on till the last of August. They should be reg- 

 ularly examined every two weeks, and all worms or cocoons found 

 concealed in them crushed or otherwise destroyed. Several promi- 

 nent fruit growers have lately adopted the plan of syriuging their 

 apple trees with Paris green or London purple in water by means of a 

 force pump and hose with a spraying nozzle. If this is done three or 

 four times during the summer it is claimed that it will prevent the 

 moths from laying their eggs. About a tablespoonful of the 

 poison should be used to a gallon of water. In small orchards the 

 bandage traps are a less expensive and less troublesome preventive^ 



THE APPLE cuRGULio. [Authonomiis qiiadrigibhous, Say.) 



A few weeks ago our President, Mr. Harris, wrote me concerning 

 a grub in apples, which he took to be the above named curculio. 

 As this insect is sometimes quite injurious to apples, a few words of 

 description may be devoted to it. It differs from the plum curculio 

 in its somewhat smaller size, its longer and more slender beak, or 

 snout, and in its habit of going through all its transformations 

 ivithin the fruit. It is of dull gray and brownish colors, with 

 four rust-red humps or projections on the hinder part of the body. 

 Its punctures in the apple, both for food and for the reception of its 

 eggs, have been compared to those made by a red-hot needle, as 

 they are always rimmed with black. Like the more common apple 

 worm, its larva, which is a humpy and wrinkly little grub, works 

 around the core of the apple, after a time changing to a translucent 

 white pupa from which, in a short time, the beetle emerges and 

 cuts its way out of the fruit. As this species breeds but once a 

 year it is never likely to do such extensive damage as some other 

 apple worms. It can be kept in check by jarring the beetle from 

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