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expected. The stock that eats the fallen fruit promptly as it falls, will destroy a vast 

 number of this enemy as well as the Curculio. Many apples that are brought down 

 by the Curculio will contain the other enemy also. Some will have in them two or 

 even more larve of the Apple Moth, of different sizes, so that if the apple should 

 still hang on the tree till the oldest one escapes, it will be likely to fall before the 

 others do. In this case some will become food for the animals. 



This Apple Moth enemy I found more numerous to-day in these early apples 

 than the Curculio. I have heard Mr. Carpenter, of Westchester County, N. Y., say, 

 that this was their enemy of the Apple crop, and not the Curculio; but probably 

 they have them both in about equal numbers, as in most other parts of the country. 



It is true, undoubtedly, that many apples that have been bored through by this 

 insect hang on the tree till they ripen. We find such at the cider mill, and in the 

 market in the winter. Sometimes they will keep till spring. But suppose that all 

 that are brought to the ground by the falling of the fruit are at once destroyed by 

 the grazing stock, the aggregate will be so much diminished that the remainder will 

 be more at the mercy of our adjuncts the birds and the hay-ropes. 



In some few instances I have seen where this insect, in its larva condition, has 

 been victimized by a parasite ; but when fairly housed under the scale of bark it is 

 so completely out of the reach of these enemies, that we cannot rely much on them 

 to assist us. 



July \ 8. About one in ten of our Bartlett Pears show signs of the presence of 

 the Apple Moth. Nine-tenths of Mr. P.'s apples have already fallen from this and the 

 Curculio. Two years ago my own Bartletts were very full, and so large a portion, at 

 this time in the season, showed the presence of this enemy, that I determined to take 

 every such pear off the tree before any had escaped. As many as half a bushel of 

 these half-grown pears were taken from each tree at a time, and a few at intervals 

 afterwards, and having no pigs they were fed to the horses. Last year these Pear 

 trees took a rest scarcely any fruit. Even the Bartlett has to rest sometimes but 

 nearly every pear came to perfection and was immensely large. Without the 

 destruction of the crop of enemies in the season of full fruit, I could hardly have 

 expected any in the season of so few. This is the great advantage of having control 

 of the insect enemies of the fruits you save the thin crops ; and these are often the 

 only crops of value for market. Fruit is scarce ; and then, too, the few of the thin 

 crop, if perfect, are so fine. We sometimes have a season of such an abundance of 

 nearly every kind of fruit that the insect enemies take all they want, and we hardly 

 miss them ; indeed, I can imagine that we may have been benefited by the thinning 



