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rope shall be in the middle of it; let the ends lap a little, punch a 

 hole through them and fasten with a nail driven through them and 

 the rope into the tree. This obstruction prevents the females which 

 are destitute of wings, from ascending the tree to deposit their eggs 

 under the bark of the trunk and larger limbs, and they will deposit 

 them below the obstruction and generally within a few inches of it." 



These bands should be put on as early as March 1st, in the latitude 

 of Chicago, and proportionately earlier or later to the south or north. 



As the eggs hatch before the red currant blossoms, these bands 

 should be taken off before this time, or before April twenty-fifth in 

 the latitude of Chicago, the ropes dipped in scalding water and the 

 trunk of the tree below it to the ground treated to kerosene oil applied 

 with a brush, then replace the bands. 



One application of kerosene is sufficient, and will not hurt the trees. 

 The fall plowing already spoken of will destroy a large portion of the 

 chrvsalids of this insect and when done for this purpose should be as 

 Late as possible, and the surface left rough. 



('. S. Protection and Care of Fruit. 



One preventive which we recommend for the codling-moth is the 

 thorough dusting of the trees with fresh lime-dust when the dew is on 

 and just before the blossoms have all fallen. 



If done earlier it may prevent the fertilization of the blossoms, and 

 if delayed much later the eggs may have hatched and the larvre en- 

 tered the fruit. 



To entrap the larvae there is nothing so good as the cloth bands so 

 often described and recommended in the reports of the Illinois State 

 Horticultural Society. The trunks of the trees having been scraped 

 and washed, as before described, bands made, of old rags, bits of car- 

 pet or gunny-sacks should be fastened closely around them a foot or 

 two above the ground. Building paper, not tarred, folded three or four 

 fold and tacked around the tree is preferred by some ; and even hay 

 bands are used effectually where neither of the other materials are 

 available. 



The bands should be applied about the first of June, and taken off 

 and the larva' destroyed as often as once in ten or twenty days 

 through the entire season, because the insects are two-brooded, and some 

 larva' of one or the other brood may be found in the traps at almost 

 any time. The rags when taken off should be scalded and replaced, 

 the insects in the folds of the paper bands may be crushed by putting 

 it through a clothes-wringer or otherwise crushing them; or if hay 

 bands are used they should be scalded and replaced or burned and 

 others put on at once. 



The object of applying these bands is to entrap and destroy the 

 larva-, Avhich will almost invariably seek these hiding places in which 

 to transform ; but, if they are neglected at any time longer than two week* 

 they irill do more harm than good, as the insects will have developed with 

 certainty in the nests thus provided for them. 



The bins or barrels in which apples have been kept in winter, 

 should be carefully examined before spring, and the larva; or chry- 

 salids found in the crevices and under the hoops destroyed; also moths, 

 if developed, can be destroyed before they escape from the cellar. 



