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stay hot for a week. The barrels ought to be full, so there 

 is not much air space under the heads. If they are not, there 

 will be a slight scum which will form on the top. 



A Member: That is to be kept very tight? 



Mr. Henry : It ought to be, although that slight scum 

 which forms on the top does not hurt anything. When you 

 come to use it, then the barrel wants to be well stirred up. 

 You do not want to use the top without stirring it up, because 

 all of the sediment will sink to the bottom. It ought to be 

 stirred up first. 



President Rogers : I am sorry to call this discussion to 

 a close, but we have got one more speaker on orchard foes 

 this morning. The next talk is on the codling moth. We have 

 with us Dr. Britton from the New Haven Experiment Sta- 

 tion, who will give us just a few minutes' talk on the codling 

 moth. 



The Codling Moth. 



By Dr. W. E. Brxtton, State Entomologist. 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen : 



The apple growers are inclined to look upon the advent 

 of the San Jose Scale and some of these other troubles as 

 being extremely serious, but the codling moth, like the poor, we 

 have always had with us, and we have gotten so used to it 

 that we have not considered it so. Nevertheless, the codling 

 moth is probably the worst of all apple insect pests in the state 

 at the present time. While it may not cause such widespread 

 damage throughout the state, yet it is scattered all around, and 

 each year it takes its toll of fruit. The amoimt of the damage 

 which it does is very considerable. 



The eggs are laid upon the leaves and upon the fruit soon 

 after the fruit sets. In the careful experiments of Professor 

 Sanderson at the New Hampshire station he found that the 

 voung caterpillars feed upon the buds. Formerly they did not 



