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THE CODLING MOTH. 



( Picture /rom Lodemin'g " TA^ Spr(u/in;j of PlanU,'' 

 by pormution of The Jfaemiilan Co.) 



fOTWITHSTANDING the formida- 

 ble list of new and dreadful orchard 

 pests, including' the much talked of 

 San Jose Scale, it is doubtful if we 

 have any plag'ue at the present time so 

 alarming as the Codling Moth. 



In orchards of the southern parts of On- 

 tario, where there are two broods each year, 

 the moth is increasing so rapidly that in un- 



sprayed orchards fully one half, and often 

 even two-thirds of the apple crop is rendered 

 unmarketable by its ravag-es. Twenty years 

 ago a very few apples would be rejected in 

 packing on account of Codling Moth ; now 

 it threatens to destroy the whole crop of the 

 careless orchardist. 



For some years past, Mr. \V. M. Orr, of 

 Fruitland, President of the Ontario Fruit 

 Growers' Association, has been experiment- 

 ing with bands upon the trunks of the apple 

 tree for the trapping^ of the Codling Moth, 

 with marked success, and has been exhibiting 

 at our meetings, and at the Industrial Fair, 

 samples of these bands which had been used, 

 and were full of larva. At Whitby a com- 

 mittee on Codling Moth was appointed, 

 which has since drafted and presented before 

 the Provincial Minister of Ag^riculture the 

 following outline to serve as the basis of 

 an Act of Parliament : 



This Act may be Cited as the Codling 

 Moth Local Option Act.* 



THE object. 

 I. It shall be the duty of every occupant, or, if 

 the land be unoccupied, of the owner of such land, 

 to place bands (as hereinafter described) u|X)n all 



