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to hogs. Scrape the loose bark from the trees in the 

 spring, and erush the cocoons. When they are in the 

 winged state, build bonfires. 



Barh Louse.-— This is a small, oval, white insect, that 

 deposits its eggs under a thin scale upon the bark of 

 apple trees. Wash the trees with a solution made of 

 2 lbs. Potash to 2 gall. Water. 



The Canker Worm. This worm, [mmopteri/x pomeich 

 ria, of JIurnSy) is very destructive to apple trees in 

 some parts of N. E. The male is a moth with wings; 

 the female is without wings. They come out of 

 the ground as soon as the frost is out, and the females 

 slowly climb up the tree where the males mate with 

 them. The eggs. are deposited in the forks of limbs 

 and on young twigs. They number about one hun- 

 dred to an insect, and are arranged in rows. About 

 the middle or last of May, they hatch out and brown 

 or ash colored worms, with yellow stripes on their 

 backs^ commence their devastation upon the foliage. 

 After feeding about four weeks, they descend into th© 

 ground and there remain in a chrysalis form until the 

 ensuing spring. 



7h destroy litem, place a band of canvass four or six 

 inches wide around tlie trunk of the tree, and cover 

 it with tar and oil mixed, or with melted India rubber. 

 The female wlien attempting to climb is caught in 

 this and killed. Dig the ground over late in the fall^ 

 so that. the worm in the chrystdis form may freeze. 



Fig. 10. 



Vvrculio. — The Curculio, known to. 

 naturalists by the name, llhi/nchoenm 

 Nenuphar^ is one of the most serious hin- 

 derences to the cultivation of the 

 pliun. Its habits are not fully known. 

 It is a small, dark brown^^ winged beetle, 

 scarcely one fifth of an inch long, with 



spots of white, yellow, and black. It has two hump;? 



on its back and a pretty long curved neck and snout, 



