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it does not remain long in the fruit after it has fallen, but pro- 

 ceeds to make its way out, and seek its hiding place, very soon 

 after the fruit comes to the ground. For this reason it is im- 

 portant that the fruit should not be permitted to remain on the 

 ^ound, but be gathered up regularly every day. If it be possible 

 to keep a litter of small pigs in the orchard, with sharp appetites, 

 they will consume the apples as fast as they faU, and thus destroy 

 a great many of the worms. But it will not do to depend upon 

 this method of destroying them alone. Many will escape from 

 the apples before they drop, or creep out soon enough thereafter 

 to escape the pigs. In order to catch these, a rope of straw may 

 be twisted around the trimk of the tree near the ground, and 

 another just below the branches, or, if convenient, strips of woollen 

 rags, lightly twisted together, may be tied around the trees, and 

 a handful of woollen rags laid in the fork of the branches. The 

 worms will seek these as hiding places, and spin their cocoons 

 there. These bands may be examined, and when the worms or 

 cocoons are found to have become numerous, those that are of 

 straw may be taken off and burned, and new bands put in their 

 places. The wooUen bands or rags may be searched, and the 

 codling-worms killed, or they may be dipped in hot water, or 

 placed on a board and pounded with a maUet so as to crush the 

 insects concealed within the folds, and then replaced. Dr. Trim- 

 ble, of New Jersey, recommends this plan, and it is said that as 

 many as a thousand have been taken in this way, from one tree, 

 in a single season. In addition to these methods of destroying 

 them, great advantage wUl be derived from building numerous 

 small fires in the orchard at night, with chips and shavings, during 

 the month of June. These codling-worm moths, and the moths 

 of a great many other injurious insects, attracted by the light, 

 fly into the blaze and are burned. 



It is not possible sufiSciently to impress upon the mind of 

 each one who has an orchard the importance of using every one 

 of these methods for the destruction of the codling-worm. So 

 rapidly do they multiply, so destructive are their ravages, so sure 



