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winter, often escaping in the cellar or storage house where 

 they spin their cocoons in concealed places, from which, 

 the moth emerges the following spring. 



Preventive measures. Spraying the trees shortly after 

 the petals fall and while the calyx of the young fruit faces 

 upward, with water containing Paris green at the rate of 

 one pound to 200 gallons destroys many of the young 

 larvae as they attempt to eat their way into the fruit. As 

 the egg-laying period for the first brood continues several 

 days, and as the young fruit expands rapidly at this pe- 

 riod, a second spraying should be given 7 to 10 days after 

 the first, and if rains are frequent, a third spraying after a 

 like interval is advisable. 



In addition to spraying, bands about 6 inches wide of 

 burlap, old carpet, other cloth fabric, or of building paper, 

 should be placed about the trunk of the trees to entrap the 

 larvae as they search for a place to transform. The bands 

 should be put on about June 1st, and should be wound 

 once or twice about the trunk, when the end may be fast- 

 ened with a tack or cord. The bands should be taken off 

 every 8 or 10 days until September, and all larvae or chrys- 

 alids found beneath them should be destroyed, after which 

 the bands should be replaced. They should also be re- 

 moved once after the later apples are harvested. The co- 

 coons are often torn open in removing the band, permitting 

 the larva to drop to the ground. The larva should then 

 be killed so that it will not form another cocoon. Finally, 

 all fruit that falls from damage infiicted by the codling- 

 moth larva should be promptly destroyed. Hogs or sheep in 

 the orchard aid greatly in this work. In the absence of these, 

 the fallen fruit should be gathered daily and fed to stock 

 or otherwise disposed of to destroy the larvae they contain. 



