G8 THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF FRUITS. 



• As all of these modes are important, we will consider them sepa- 

 rately. We have seen that they go into winter quarters and spin 

 their cocoons under the rough bark of the trees, in the crevices of 

 the bins or barrels in the cellar-, or any similar hidi-ng-place that is 

 conveniently reached. We have seen, also, that one female moth 

 will lay from fifty to sixty eggs —perhaps twice that number ; 

 hence it is obviously important that as many of them as possible 

 should be destroyed before leaving their quarters in the spring. 

 Hence we receive much aid from the birds — wood-peckers and sap- 

 suckers— which employ the winter very industriously in pecking 

 holes in loose bark, and otherwise searching for and destroying 

 them. Any one wTio will take the trouble to examine his trees in 

 the spring, will find numerous holes through these scales of bark, 

 made by the bills of these birds, and will see that one of these 

 insects has disappeared from the opposite side. But the birds don't 

 find them all. We must search for and destroy the remainder, if 

 we would be exempt from their ravages. The bins and barrels 

 must be searched ; the bark of the trees must be examined. All 

 the loose bark should be scraped off in the early spring and burned. 

 But with all the search we are likely to or can make, and with all 

 the aid the birds give us, many of them will escape capture, and 

 will come forth in the spring full fledged moths, ready to begin 

 their work of destruction as soon as the young apple is ready. 



The next step is to destroy the wormy apples. Those containing 

 worms can readily be distinguished by the rust-colored castings 

 aiihering to the calyx or blossom end, where the efrg was deposited. 

 To remove these apples before the worms have left them, and feed 

 them to hogs, or otherwise destroy the worms, is a matter of first 

 importance. Any expedient that will be cheap and effective should 

 be resorted to. It should be remembered that, for every apple so 

 picked and worm destroyed, of this first brood, the parent of at 

 least fifty or sixty later ones is put out of the way. In a small 

 orchard, the removal of almost all the wormy apples stung by the 

 first brood can be effected, and it is a question whether what wjU 

 pay with a few trees will not also pay in the case of many. 



To wait for the apples to fall and be eaten by animals is well as 

 lar as it goes ; but as many of the worms leave the apples before 

 they fall, and many of them soon afcerwards. it will be seen that a 

 large portion would escape destruction. An examination of wind- 



