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grub can be destroyed. If it has penetrated 

 into the wood it can be killed with a piece 

 of stout pliable wire. 



For the oyster-shell bark-louse use i or 3. 



There are several other kinds of scale in- 

 sects which occur upon the apple which may 

 be treated in the same way as the oyster- 

 shell bark-louse. 



The woolly aphis is seldom a serious pest 

 in the East, but it is very troublesome in 

 British Columbia. The best remedies are 

 to spray the colonies of these white downy 

 lice on the branches and trunks with kero- 

 sene emulsion or a wash made with one 

 pound of whale-oil soap in five gallons of 

 water. For the root colonies remove the 

 surface soil to a depth of six inches for a 

 foot or two around the trunk and dig in 

 tobacco dust or refuse from a tobacco factory. 



The codling moth is the parent of the 

 destructive apple worm so well known to all 

 growers and consumers of apples through- 

 out the world. In eastern Canada there is 

 only one regular brood of the insect ; but west 

 of Toronto there are two broods, the latter 

 of which is by far the more destruc- 

 tive. When there is only one brood spray 

 with 2 or 6 three or four times in the spring, 

 beginning immediately after the flowers 

 have fallen, at intervals of ten days. That 

 is all that is required. Where there are 

 two broods, band the trees in autumn with 

 strips of burlap, whisps of hay or any "tree 

 protector." 



Number 6 will destroy, also, many other 

 enemies which feed on the foliage, such as 

 cankerworms, tent caterpillars, leaf-rollers 

 and the like. 



Spraying is useless for the apple maggot. 

 The remedy most to be relied on is the 

 prompt destruction of windfalls so as to 

 prevent the maggots going into the ground. 

 This can best be done by keeping a sufficient 

 number of pigs, sheep or other stock in the 

 orchard. The penning up of poultry be- 

 neath infested trees has been found a most 

 useful practice. 



The San Jose scale is the most difficult 

 insect to eradicate that the fruit growers 

 have to contend against, and active experi- 

 ments are still going on to discover a remedy 

 for this pest. Up to now the two treat- 

 ments our experts have found to give the 

 best results are the spraying of trees in 

 winter, or before the buds burst, with a solu- 

 tion consisting of two pounds of whale-oil 

 soap in one gallon of water, or with 25 to 

 30 per cent application of crude petroleum 

 and water. 



These are facts which are of the utmost 

 importance to apple growers at this season, 

 and are the ascertained results of years of 

 patient study, research and experiment on 

 the part of Dr. James Fletcher, the Ento- 

 mologist, Mr. W. T. Macoun, the Horticul- 

 turist, and Mr. Frank T. Shutt, M. A., 

 Chemist, at the Central Experimental Farm 

 Ottawa, and other parts of the Dominion. 



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Damage by Frost — Replies from Various Sections. 



A. E. Sherrington, Walkerton. — "At 

 the present time, May i6th, the prospects 

 are good ; everything is full of bloom but 

 very little out yet. Very little damage from 

 frost, although we had twelve degrees of it, 

 on the night of the loth. My apricot was 



in full bloom, still it is apparently setting 

 considerable fruit." 



R. L. Haggard, Whitby, May 16th. — 

 " Frost did no injury to fruit so far, as 

 blossoms were not developed, except apri- 

 cots, which were in bloom and are some- 



