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country in return boxes from market, where they have 

 been in contact with boxes containing wormy fruit. We 

 have taken six larvae from one bundle of empty boxes 

 at S. V. R. R. depot, being sent back to the mountain 

 orchards of El Dorado County. 



Of pear trees, from twelve to sixteen inches diameter, 

 fair height, one man washed one hundred and fifty per 

 day. One gallon of solution averaged four and one half 

 trees. The Codling Moth Wash is an excellent ferti- 

 lizer for the tree and produces a smooth bark. 



The codling moth wash destroys aphis and all 

 insect life that it reaches, on trees or vines. Grape 

 growers should experiment by washing their young vines 

 twice each year, as we think that it will free them from 

 attacks of insect pests. R. B. Blowers, Esq., of Wood- 

 land. Yolo County, indorses this plan for grape vines. 



We have received a package of sheep wash from the 

 Standard Soap Company of San Francisco, which we 

 will give a thorough trial and report its effect on the 

 larva of this pest. 



It is necessary where an examination is made of an 

 orchard, to examine every tree carefully, of the apple, 

 pear, and quince varieties. 



We made an examination of a small orchard contain- 

 ing about seventy-five apple trees, some of them large 

 trees. On fifty-eight that \ve examined carefully, we 

 found, all told, three larvae; on the fifty-ninth we found 

 thirty-five in less than fifteen minutes; on the balance 

 we found only a few. 



The moth deposits the eggs at night. 



Part of the early fruit falls prematurely when attacked 

 by larva but little of the late fruit falls before the 

 larva escapes. 



NOTE. Since writing the above, we found in a fruit packing 

 room some larvae in nests made in a package of paper. 



