THE APPLE MOTH. 13! 



the doors of handsome mansions had shed so many that the ground was nearly covered 

 with them. Nothing was done the fruit never picked up both Curculio and 

 Apple Worm having their own way. The pigs were penned up, and were squealing 

 for food. They would have enjoyed this young wormy fruit, but they squealed in 

 vain. 



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Aug. 5. CROOKED LAKE, YATES Co. Plenty of marks of the Curculio on the 

 apples about here, and still more of the Apple Moth. 



Aug. 7. NIAGARA FALLS GOAT ISLAND. A few Apple trees in a garden near 

 the bridge. A full crop, but it will soon fall. Terribly infested with both Curculio 

 and Apple Moth. 



Aug. 10. Home again. Have been examining the fruit in the barrels. I had 

 placed, some weeks ago, a bushel of blighted apples in two old flour barrels half filled 

 with earth and covered with milliner., but during my absence this covering has been 

 disarranged, and the young enemies have mostly escaped. The Apple Moth larva 

 were found in great numbers wherever they could conceal themselves about the old 

 barrels. I observed the cocoons of six touching each other in a place where the hoop 

 was about an eighth of an inch from the stave. Some fifty were found about the 

 barrels in their larva condition, and three pupa cases. From this time I shall try to 

 test what proportion undergo their transformation the present season. Some cer- 

 tainly do, and these Moths are probably the parents of the worms we find in the 

 Apples and Pears so late in the summer and fall. Strange that there should be two 

 broods in a season of some and only one of others. This is not the only instance, but 

 such irregularities are rare. Bartlett Pears are still falling from the effects of the 

 Apple Moth, but these wind-falls will soon be all off. The crop is somewhat thinned, 

 but plenty left, and very fine. 



Aug. 1 1. I have at last found time to examine more carefully my Apple Moth 

 traps set on the 14th of last month. On a young Bartlett Pear tree in my own gar- 

 den, five inches through, I had wrapped a piece of Chamois leather, eighteen inches 

 from the ground. The leather was folded into three thicknesses, and went twice 

 round. It was secured by tying it firmly with twine near the upper part. The 

 worms in ascending could easily enter under this leather, but could not get in from 

 above on account of the twine acting as a ligature. Here I found twenty-one of 

 these worms, all snugly wrapped up in their coco,o.ns 4 and ready for their long sleep. 



