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haps for a few belated individuals of the first brood, it is not 

 probable that they are doing much injury except where they 

 puncture apples for food. When cold weather comes it seems 

 certain that they find hiding places to spend the winter. 



During years when these insects are abundant, 70, 80 or 

 even 90 per cent of the plums may be destroyed or injured 

 by their attacks. I^ot satisfied with this, they puncture cher- 

 ries and apples also; and recently their work on the latter 

 fruit has become so marked that the plum curculio is now 

 considered quite an important apple pest. It lays its eggs 

 in the fruit, causing many apples to fall off early, and the 

 beetles which are produced in the summer also feed upon 

 them, producing unsightly blemishes which seriously reduce 

 their value. 



"No one method of treatment will suffice for this pest. 

 Spraying with the arsenate of lead just before the blossoms 

 open gives good results, as the leaves, upon which the beetles 

 feed more or less while waiting for the fruit to form, will 

 thus be covered with poison. In the case of the apple this 

 treatment combined with Bordeaux mixture has already been 

 advised for the bud moth, so it is not in reality an addition 

 to the treatments. A second spraying after the blossoms fall 

 should also be given, and has already been advised for the 

 control of the codling moth ; and the second spraying for this 

 pest will also help control the curculio. 



It is very possible, however, that these treatments may be 

 only partially successful because of rainy weather, and it is 

 often desirable to resort to the " curculio catcher." This is 

 practically a large frame covered with white cloth, placed 

 beneath the tree, which is then suddenly jarred. During the 

 greater part of the day and even during the warm nights the 

 curculios fly quite freely, but for some reason they are very 

 sluggish early in the morning and about sunset. At such 

 times they will fall from a jarred tree without taking flight, 

 and may easily be gathered from the cloth beneath and 

 crushed. 



As many of the grubs fall to the ground in the fruit, and 

 all of them enter the ground to pupate, fowls and hogs per- 



