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the whole crop in an apple orchard. The moth is a beautiful little 

 creature ; it spans about three-fourths of an inch, is of brown glossy- 

 color ; sometimes light-colored specimens are found. It hibernates 

 in the larva state inside the little cocoon, or in the apple of which a 

 great many, with approach of winter are stowed away in barrels. 



Remedy. The most effective method of destroying this persistent 

 and very injurious little intruder is spraying with a sulution of Paris 

 Green, as repeatedly has been proved. Two teaspoonfuls of poison 

 to a gallon of water, well mixed, applied with a good syringe to the 

 foliage. These syringes are now made for this purpose. The time 

 of spraying for the earl}' varieties is the first week in June, for the 

 later fruits in July. The process should be repeated after a few 

 days to make sure your work, especially when rain after spraying 

 has washed the poison from the foliage to any extent. But be it 

 remembered the trees should never be sprayed with Paris Green 

 solution after the apple has turned downward on its stem ; this 

 operation would be dangerous if the fruit is to be used later. 



Besides, traps as recommended by many could be used to some 

 advantage. They ought to be visited every week, twice, and the 

 cocoons and larvae found in them destroj^ed. All the fallen fruit 

 should be carefully gathered and fed to hogs, or done away with, 

 where the larvse yet in the apple may perish. When collecting at 

 night, with a lantern, insects, especially Noctuid^ with molasses I 

 have often observed the females laying their eggs. Nothing will 

 disturb them from their duty. One can almost put the light close 

 on to them ; the}^ will not stir. I have sometimes picked them off 

 with m}' fingers, but in all my collecting which is a good many years, 

 I have never caught a codling moth coming to my light, nor ever 

 one at sugar smirred on the trees under their very noses. Who- 

 ever has invented the story that codling moths will take sugar must 

 have mistaken the numerous other smaller Noctuida? which he may 

 have caught. It is folly to think of putting bottles with sweet stuflf 

 among the branches of trees ; at least my experience of twenty 

 years has proved it to me to be so. I would further recommend the 

 burning of sulphur in little saucers here and there, one under the 

 trees at night in beginning of June. This process has been tried in 

 Germany of late, with great effect. 



The Apple Maggot ( Trypeta pomonella) . This insect as I am in- 

 formed by your Honorable Secretary, Mr. Boardman, has done here, 

 in the western part of the State, a great deal of injury to the apples. 



