no STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.' 



may have neglected our duty about it, but that is the way they 

 grow. And as you find them, pack them. Don't waste half or 

 two-thirds of them. Pack the most of them- if you are going to 

 ship on your own account to Liverpool. But if you are shipping 

 to Chicago, it is no use to send No. 2's, or any Western state or 

 Northern city or town. The Americans discriminate more than 

 the English. They don't seem to have so much use for No. 2's. 

 I don't know hardly what they do with them there. Some years 

 they make black currant jam out of the poor apples. One firm 

 last year made 300 tons out of cider apples, poor apples that came 

 from America. 



BROWN-TAIL AND GYPSY MOTHS. 



The AIoths and What They Threaten, 



Miss Edith M. Patch, University of Maine, Orono. 



THE brown-tail moth. 



An extended description of the insect is not necessary here. 

 It will be illustrated by a lantern slide later in the day. There 

 are, also, several mounts on exhibition wdiich will give a better 

 idea of the insect in the various stages than words can. It will 

 suffice to say that the brown-tail moth is a white-w'inged moth 

 expanding about one and one-half inches, with its abdomen 

 tipped by a conspicuous golden brown tuft. 



These moths are on the wing in July and unlike the gypsy 

 'moths, the brown-tail females as well as the males are strong 

 flyers. They are active at night and as bright lights have an 

 attraction for them they sometimes fly a long way toward a 

 lighted district. The female usually selects a leaf near the tip 

 of the branch, on which to deposit from one hundred and fifty 

 to three hundred eggs. Some of the brown hairs from the 

 abdominal tuft adhere to the egg-mass and give it the appear- 

 ance of a brown felt lump. While the moths have a preference 

 for pear trees, wild cherry, apple and white oak prove very 

 attractive and other trees are not scorned. By the middle of 

 August most of the eggs are hatched and the voung caterpillars 

 spin a slight web over the leaf near the egg cluster. From this 



