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wise wormy can be saved, and that is well worth doing. 

 Some people spray as many as eight times in the West, but 

 for the codling moth two sprayings, one just before the calyx 

 lobes close and the other about the last of June, give very 

 good results in New England. The New Hampshire station 

 has found that we can save from 80 to 90 per cent, of wormy 

 Apples by the two sprayings. 



The cost for each tree would be about 9 to 16 cents per 

 treatment, including the cost of everything except the ap- 

 paratus for doing the spraying. 



I do not wish to take any time on the scales because they 

 have been so often talked about. As regards treatment for 

 the San Jose scale, however, the treatment with home-made 

 lime-sulfur seems to have given the largest measure of suc- 

 cess, but coming quite close to this, are both the miscible 

 oils and the ready-made lime-sulfur. In general, spraying 

 with lime-sulfur one year, and with a miscible oil such as 

 Scalecide, Arlington oil, or Target brand the next winter, 

 thus alternating the two kinds of treatment, seems to be giv- 

 ing the best results at the present time. 



One of our smaller pests is the apple maggot or railroad 

 worm. The fly is tiny, smaller than a house fly, and with 

 dark bands across its wings. These flies appear early in July 

 and lay their eggs in the flesh of the apples. When the eggs 

 hatch the tiny maggots burrow through the pulp of the 

 fruit, which becomes worthless. When they have reached 

 their full growth they leave the apple and go into the ground 

 where they transform into the adult fly, and leaving the 

 ground as the adult fly, they attack the later apples. They 

 are often in these late apples when the apples are gathered 

 for the winter, and when they come out of the apples they 

 icannot get into the ground, so they remain on the bottom of 

 the bins. 



This insect is very hard to destroy. The adult fly is not 

 attracted by anything that we have been able to discover, 

 and there seems to be but one time when there is a chance 

 to do anything, that is v/hen the maggot is leaving the apple 

 and g^ing into the ground. Fowls and hogs may be de- 

 pended on to take care of the maggot at this time, if allowed 

 the chance. That is an indirect method of treatment, but 

 it is the best that we have, and if carefully attended to will 

 certainly be effective unless your next door neighbor has an 



