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SPRAYING THE APPLE ORCHARD. 



Fig. 4. — Typical work of the 

 apple maggot. 



tacked by it often do not betray its presence until they are 

 opened, when it is found that the flesh is honej'combed with 



the brownish tunnels of the small 

 white maggots, or "railroaded," 

 as commonly termed. In many 

 orchards the apple maggot has l)e- 

 come so serious that it is almost 

 impossible to secure a crop of 

 summer or early fall apples. ])ut 

 rarely does it do serious injury to 

 Avinter sorts. The codling moth, 

 whose larva or caterpillar is our 

 common, old "apple worm," is therefore the chief enemy 

 of the apple crop. Just how much damage it does is not 

 generally appreciated, we fear, but the records below will 

 make this more apparent. 



But if this old pest is worth fighting had we not better 

 secure a more intimate acquaintance with it, so that we may 

 better combat it, and, perhaps incidentally, we may find 

 that it has a most interesting career. 



How the Winter is Passed. — Did you ever find out just 

 what that little downy woodpecker is doing in your or- 

 chard, tapping 

 away all win- 

 ter? If not, it 

 is high time you 

 did, for he is 

 the arch enemy 

 of the codling 

 moth and were 

 it not for his 

 good offices in 

 destroying the 

 larva.' in the 

 winter your ap- 

 ple crop might 

 frequently be a failure. Pick olT Ihc piece of bark at which 

 he has been picking and you will doubtless find that a clean 



Fig. 6.— "A clean hole drilled through the bark into 

 the empty cocoon." 



