FRUIT GROWING 153 



sumer demands. Extra fancy fruit in boxes often sells 

 for from $1.50 to $3.00 per bushel box. The method of 

 packing and heading apples in barrels is shown in 

 Fig. 98. 



Insects Attacking the Apple. 



The most injurious insects attacking the apple are the 

 codling moth, apple maggot, and apple borer. The cod- 

 ling moth is the insect that makes the wormy apples. 

 The eggs are laid upon the apple or leaves near it, from 

 which when hatched comes a very minute worm that 

 enters the apple at the blossom end, feeding inside, and 

 when mature coming out at some other point. The rem- 

 edy for this pest is Paris green or arsenate of lead applied 

 in the Bordeaux mixture, copper sulphate and lime 

 (see experiment station bulletins) , first, just as soon as the 

 petals of the flowers have fallen, and second, a week or 

 ten days later. Much may also be done to keep this pest 

 under control by picking up all dropped fruit and feed- 

 ing it to pigs or other animals. 



The apple maggot, the insect that works so abundantly 

 in sweet and mild-flavored fruit, causing decay in a very 

 short time, cannot be destroyed by any spraying ma- 

 terial, but its depredations may be greatly reduced by 

 feeding the fruit as mentioned above for the codling 

 moth. 



The apple borer attacks the trunk, especially of young 

 trees. The first year it feeds upon the inner bark and 

 sap-wood near the ground; the second year it works in 

 deeper and makes a turn upwards, when it feeds for a 

 year and then works out to the bark, where it escapes 

 as a perfect insect. The remedy for this pest is to ex- 

 amine the trees in May and again in September. The 

 young larvae will be found by paring off the outer bark 

 where the chips are thrown out by the young borers, 



