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tried that last year. It was recommended, we gave them a 

 heavy dose of Paris green, but they kept on eating. The secret 

 of success is to begin spraying just as soon as the caterpillar 

 hatches, and that is before the buds open. Go before the snow is 

 off the ground, and you will find those little caterpillars living 

 on the hope of what they expect to get later. Give them a dose 

 then ; one pound to a hundred gallons of water, and keep it up 

 every week or ten days. There are sections you cannot reach ; 

 you cannot get your pump into your wagon, and vou are obliged 

 to fight them by hand, as we were, in some parts of our hillsides, 

 among the rocks. There we fought by hand ; we used suds made 

 from strong soft soap, and then put on the band of lard and 

 sulphur. 



In most orchards, even if you are hghting with Paris green, 

 I would recommend putting on the band, for the caterpillars are 

 liable to leave their feeding ground in the neighboring forest 

 and strip your trees after you have destroyed all of those in the 

 orchard at first, as one of the best orchardists in the State knows 

 to his sorrow. The caterpillars came in from a neighboring for- 

 est and cleaned oft" every tree. Whereas, if he had put the bands 

 on lie would have saved the whole. 



