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discovered. When an orchard has been given good care, preventive 

 nieasures have been full}^ carried out, and spraying is thoroughl}^ 

 done with a gasoline-power outfit, it is unnecessary to use bands. If, 

 however, the trees are old, have cracks and holes in the trunks and 

 branches, and are close together, so that the spraying can not be well 

 done, it is quite necessary to use these bands; or if it is desired to 

 bring the insect under control in a badly infested orchard, the bands 

 can be used with good success as an additional method to spraj/ing. 



Fig. 4. — Large apple tree properly banded for the codling moth (original). 



Banding for this insect in general is simply offering a good place, 

 in which the larva will spin its cocoon and killing it after it has done 

 so. Cloth bands, from 10 to 12 inches in width, are folded once 

 lengthwise and placed around the tree. They can be fastened in 

 such a waj' as to be easily removed and replaced by driving a nail 

 through the ends and then nipping off' the head at an angle so as to 

 leave a sharp point. If a tree is large, one band should be placed 

 on the trunk and one on each of the larger limbs. (Fig. 4.) Cloth 

 bands of any heav}', dark-colored stuff' are much preferable to bands 



