96 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 
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THE DESTRUCTION OF WINDFALLS.—FEEDING AND TRAMPLING— 
THE USE OF SHEEP AND HOoGS.—This remedy is one of the oldest in 
use and may be used with good results. There is no question but. 
that a great many of the larvee which fall with the apples, which. . 
we have elsewhere shown constitute the larger proportion, are de-- 
stroyed by stock pastured in this way. We can do no better under 
this head than re-produce one of the best of the many accounts by 
men who have tried this method. This isa statement by Mr. J.$. 
Woodward inthe New York Weekly Tribune for June 9, 1880: 
‘“My apple orchard covers 32 acres of ground; and in addition to 
making a run for some 30 hogs, I have during the past two years: 
kept from 150 to 200 sheep and lambs in it during the summer. [ 
have just brought the sheep (May 21) and turned them in for this 
season. Of course that amount of land, if it was in good seeding 
and free from trees, would not pasture so much stock, but in addi- 
tion to the pasture, I feed enough grain and wheat bran to keep 
them in such condition that the lambs shall be large enough to wean 
in July, and the sheep sufficiently thrifty to at once accept the buck 
after weaning the lambs, and thus drop their next lambs for early 
winter feeding next winter. 
‘‘This, I find, costs me less than to hire the same number pastured 
by the week, and being crowded they eat every fallen apple as soon 
as dropped; for the latter purpose I find sheep much better than hogs, 
for while the hogs sleep so soundly as not to hear an apple drop if 
only a few feet away, a sheep never sleeps, so that it is on hand for 
every apple as soon as it touches the ground. ; 
“‘Tljet them run here until time to gather winter fruit, and although 
they will eat a few apples and a few twigs from the ends of the lower 
limbs, as they bend down with the load of fruit, I find my fruit each 
year growing fairer, with less and less wormy apples, and my trees, 
manured with the feeding of so much grain, are looking remarkably 
healthy and are productive. To prevent their gnawing the smaller 
trees I wash the trunks with a solution of soap-suds, whale-oil soap, 
and sheep manure about once each month, and besides I give the 
sheep a constant and full supply of fresh water; this is very im- 
portant, for in hot weather they get very thirsty, and will eat the 
bark from the largest trees even, unless they have plenty of water. 
‘<‘T like this manner of treating my orchard very much. What it 
would cost me to hire the sheep pastured each week will buy at least 
600 pounds of bran and 400 pounds of corn, making an aggregate 
each summer of over 10 tons of the very best kind of fertilizer for 
an orchard. For the money I pay for feed I get my sheep kept in 
the finest condition, have the lambs growing finely all summer, and 
have the whole amount of feed bought (which is worth all it costs for 
that purpose) scattered about the orchard in the best possible con- 
dition and manner. Thus, you see, I prove that it is perfectly prac- 
ticable to ‘eat my cake and have it, too,’ or, in other words, to get 
twice value received for the money invested, besides having the Cod- 
ling Moth successfully trapped.” 
Where it is inconvenient or impossible to pasture sheep or hogs in 
an orchard, the immediate collecting of windfalls by hand, in which 
the services of children can be utilized, is often a valuable adjunct 
to the use of the band system. 
JARRING OR PICKING INFESTED FRUIT FROM THE TREES.—The 
plan of jarring the trees or of knocking off or picking the infested | 
fruit has been practiced by some orchardists with considerable suc- 
