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arsenate of lead and let them eat the poison and kill them- 

 selves when they come to it. 



The main point is that insects of that type, feeding on 

 the leaves, are easily controlled, compared with those that 

 suck the juices and which are so small that we overlook 

 them. 



The bud moth is a small moth which frequently does 

 much damage to our fruit. This insect lays its eggs on the 

 leaves in the latter part of June or in July, and the cater- 

 pillars skeletonize the leaves, leaving the upper surfaces. 

 When they stop feeding they crawl out on the twigs and 

 make places to pass the winter. In the spring, they go to 

 the buds (flower and leaf) and draw the parts together or 

 burrow in and feed. One caterpillar will not usually en- 

 tirely consume a bud. but will eat out the heart and then go 

 to another bud and thus destroy a large number of buds be- 

 fore we have any idea of what is going on. After feeding on 

 this way for a time, they draw the leaves together and go 

 into the cocoon and about the first of July, out comes the 

 moth which starts the new generation, whicli works during 

 the summer. The trouble with this is that the insect is 

 small and works at a time when we do not know of it. Or- 

 chardists judge their fruit by the estimate of the blossoms, 

 but in the case of this pest the injury has already been done 

 before the blossoms appear. This insect is easily controlled 

 by spraying with arsenate of lead, and the time to apply it 

 is just before the blossoms open. Fortunately, this is also 

 a good time to spray for fungous diseases, and the two treat- 

 ments can be combined by using arsenate of lead and Bor- 

 deaux mixtures. 



The Fall Canker Worm. 



It is now some years since Massachusetts has had what 

 would be called a canker-worm year. It is not unlikely 

 that we may have one before long. Connecticut has been 

 having hers. When it does appear it is liable to be pretty 

 serious. The male canker-worm has wings, the female not. 

 There are two kinds, fall and spring. In both kinds the 

 caterpillar is an inch worm, so called ; in both the adult moth 

 comes out of the ground; in both the eggs are laid on the 

 twigs of the tree ; in both the female is wingless and hence 

 must crawl up the tree ; and in both the caterpillars feed 

 in the spring of the year. The moth that lays the eggs comes 



