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ness of the plowing will be increased if a few handful s of corn be 

 plowed in under each tree, and the hogs be permitted to have range 

 of the orchard. 



"The method of putting on the tin and rope bands mentioned in the 

 first paragraph is very simple. Take a piece of inch rope— old worn- 

 out rope is just as good as new— tack one end to the trunk, two feet or 

 less from the ground, with a shingle nail, driven in so that the head 

 shall not project beyond the level of the rope ; bring the rope round 

 the tree and let it lap by the beginning an inch or two ; cut it off, 

 and fasten it in the same manner. Get the tin man to cut up some 

 sheets of tin into strips four inches wide, and fasten them together 

 end-wise so that they shall be long enough to go round the tree over 

 the rope band, having the rope at the middle. Let the ends of the 

 tin lap a little, punch a hole through them and fasten them with a 

 nail driven through the tin and rope into the tree." 



It is evident that if any practical method of preventing the wing- 

 less female from ascending the trunk of the tree can be invented, this 

 insect can be brought under control and its ravages prevented. As 

 the reader is already aware, this is the object of Dr. LeBaron's rope 

 and tin bands. The rope is chiefly to hold the tin bands off from the 

 tree, thus rendering the ascent more difficult, and the tin band should 

 have the broader over-lapping margin below. The rope is also of ad- 

 vantage as its spongy nature allows the water which runs down the 

 trunk to pass through and thus not streak the tin as would be the 

 case if tacked on the bark, thus providing points of easier access for 

 the moths. It should therefore not be tarred except where necessary 

 to *top some hole through which the moth might make her way up- 

 wards, a point which must be carefully looked after. 



This is perhaps the most complete bar to their ascent that has yet 

 been suggested, and apparently at least, falls but little short of per- 

 fect. When the moths are very numerous it is more than probable 

 that they will accumulate under the rope, and climbing over each 

 other a few may cross the tin if it is rusty. 



But other remedies which will aid this should not be neglected. If 

 they have appeared in considerable numbers before the precaution 

 has been taken, turn hogs and chickens in the orchard about the time 

 worms begin dropping to the ground to enter it; these will destroy a 

 great many and thus lessen their number. Then, late as possible in 

 the fall, plow up the ground so as to expose the chrysalids to the frost 

 and cold ; this will lessen the number still further so that if securely 

 banded and carefully watched in the spring theorchardist may m one 

 year succeed in entirely eradicating them. 



But the great difficulty appears to be to get those who have or- 

 chards to enter \ipon this work of extermination in good earnest. 

 Some who have extensive orchards say the cost is too great, they pre- 

 fer to run the risk of losing their trees, hoping for some climatic or 

 other change which shall cause them to depart. Others who make 

 their orchards matters of but secondary consideration cannot spare 

 the time to protect them and so leave them to their fate. So by these 

 two extremes, these and other pests are perpetuated in a neighbor- 

 hood where they might be exterminated without extraordinary effort 

 or unusual expense. It would be well, perhaps, to give to townships 



