CATEKriLLAR — CANKER-WORM APPLE-WORM. 1 S7 



A tliick buckskin glove should be worn; and with the 

 hand thus protected, the nest should be grasped and 

 crushed — being careful to press firmly all the crevices 

 of the bark to destroy every individual. 



There is but one method better, and this is to look 

 carefully over the trees several times after the leaves 

 have fallen ; gather every leaf curled and gummed 

 to the tree, and every circlet of whitish eggs attached 

 to a limb, and put them in the fire. 



The most efi:*ective and convenient allies in destroy- 

 ing insects are, birds and dung-hill fowls. When the 

 latter are fed at distant and difterent spots about the 

 pear grounds, they acquire a habit of wandering 

 among the trees, and although generally shy of 

 attacking caterpillars, yet their quick eyes no sooner 

 detect a miller, a fly, or a beetle, about to lay eggs for 

 an innumerable generation, than the hapless insect is 

 deposited in the crop of some of the gallinaceoB. 

 Wasps, flies, and moths are the parents of rapidly- 

 increasing tribes, and by destroying one of them, we 

 rid ourselves of thousands. Wide-mouthed vials con- 

 taining molasses, and hung in the branches of trees, 

 will catch large numbers : small bright fires made in 

 various parts of the fruit-grounds, during the nights 

 of June and July, will attract and destroy many. 



