INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FRUIT. 



phase of the Apple Moth question. -Newark cider has been celebrated for many 

 years, and commands a very high price. The best is made of a mixture of the 

 Canfield and Harrison apples, and many farmers in Eastern New Jersey have large 

 orchards, almost exclusively of these two kinds, but the Borers, Tent Caterpillars, 

 Curculio, and Apple Moth have become such formidable enemies that the business is 

 nearly given up, and must soon be abandoned altogether, unless these insect pests are 

 resolutely met and conquered. 



Oct. 6. Have again examined my hay-trap on the tree at Mr. P.'s, but found 

 only one worm. I have looked carefully again to-day, both above and below this 

 trap, and find one more outsider. I have caught nearly 200 under the hay-band on 

 this tree, and only two outside of it. A further examination on neighboring trees 

 shows a great number of these worms in their usual winter quarters under the bark. 

 From these experiments it looks as if one of these hay-traps to a tree would take all, 

 or so nearly all, that but few would be left for the birds. 



Oct. 16. Passed two hours to-day in an orchard, a few miles from the city, 

 examining the Apple and Pear trees. I found great numbers of the larvae of the 

 Apple Moth snug and close in their winter quarters. It is easy to see also where 

 many more have been equally snug in other years, but had been found by their bird 

 enemy. I observe no signs yet that these birds have commenced their searches this 

 fall. Fewer holes are made by these birds near the ground than higher up. I find a 

 few fresh-made holes on some of the Apple trees here, made by the Sapsucker. 



Oct. 30. The Apples in the New York market are now fine many of them 

 what they should be, perfectly sound. They are chiefly from Western New York, 

 and bear strong marks of having come from the counties bordering on Lake Ontario; 

 and any one accustomed to watching closely the fruit from that section will soon be 

 able to distinguish it. But with all their perfections there are still enough blemished 

 to tell that both Curculio and Apple Moth are there. Should all the apple-growers 

 in that section of Western New York resolutely determine to conquer these enemies, 

 41 they would have the means of accumulating wealth beyond the dreams of avarice," 

 as Johnson says. 



Nov. 1 8. Spent an hour to-day in examining the bodies of two old dwarf Pear 

 trees in Mr. P.'s garden, near his asparagus bed, and found sixty of the asparagus 

 beetles under the same -kind of scales of bark where the larvje of the Apple Moth 

 are found where lady-bugs, bouncing beetles, flies, and spiders are found. The day 



