The Canadian Horticulturist. 417 



CODLING MOTH AND APPLE INSPECTION. 



HE codling moth must be routed from Ontario orchards, and our 

 shippers must exert themselves more faithfully in spraying with Paris 

 green, the best known means of exterminating it. Then, in packing, 

 all wormy apples should be sold at home or fed to stock ; never shipped 

 to distant markets, else the results will prove most disastrous to our 

 ' Canadian export trade. Recently a car load of apples has been seized 

 ^Sfe-®-' in British Columbia by the fruit inspector of that province and ordered 

 to be destroyed, because they were found to be infested with this 

 moth. This is in accordance with one of the laws of British Columbia. The 

 section reads : " All persons possessing, forwarding or distributing trees, plants, 

 nursery stock or fruit, infested with any insects, such as woolly aphis, apple tree 

 aphis, scaly bark louse, oyster shell louse, San Jose scale, red scale borers, cur- 

 rant worms or other known injurious insects, shall have the same disinfected and 

 cleansed of such insects before forwarding, distributing, selling or disposing of 

 said plants or fruits." 



Here is the clipping from the Daily Globe of Friday, November 2nd, in 

 reference to the seizure of these apples : 



Alleged Apple Pest 



Mr. i5osworth, Assistant Freight Traffic Manager of the C. P. R., received the follow- 

 ing dispatch yesterday : " British Columbia Government Fruit Inspector is condemning 

 apples shipped from Ontario on account of their being infected by a larvae of the codling 

 moth, and he is insisting that a car load of apples now there shall be destroyed by fire. 

 Unless shippers are careful in filling orders for British Columbia market to see that the 

 fruit is free from infection of this kind, serious loss will result." Inquiry by the (Jlobe 

 among the fruit dealers of this city failed to reveal any cause of such alarm as is suggested 

 )yy the dispatch. Tiiere is no prevalence of the codlincj moth this year, and the shipment 

 in question they think must have been of fruit poorly handled, if it was not made up of 

 windfalls. 



Now. there is no doubt that such carelessness is the management of 

 orchards by some growers, and consequently their fruit is badly infested with 

 the codling moth. But this state of affairs can, and should, be remedied. Sheep 

 or pigs in the orchard will eat all the wormy fruit as it falls, hay bands will catch 

 them, spraying will poison them, and careful sorting will prevent any of them 

 bemg exported. 



Would it not be well for growers of first-class fruit to be all agreed together 

 that they will pack only stock which is free from worms, and graded according 

 to our No. I and 2 classes, which have already been described in the Canadian 

 Horticulturist, and these hand in their names to the editor, for publication, 

 under a special heading, in the advertising columns ? Such a list would not need 

 to cost each grower more than ten cents per month ; and circulating, as it would, 

 among the leading fruit merchants of Canada, United States and (ireat Britain, 

 would tend to bring our best growers into connection with the best buyers. 

 .The grades referred to, as defined by the writer, are as follows : — 



