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POPULAR FRUIT GROWING. 



Fig. 



25. Injury caused by the lar- 

 va of the Codlin Moth. 



places to spin their cocoons 

 nearby, which is often be- 

 tween the hoops and staves 

 of the barrels holding the 

 fruit. 



Remedies. The fallen fruit 

 should be promptly gathered 

 and destroyed. Keeping hogs 

 in the orchard is very bene- 

 ficial as they destroy the 

 worm-infested fruit; but it 

 should be remembered that 

 when too much stock is pas- 

 tured in the orchard and the 

 grass becomes scarce, they 

 are liable to bark the trees. 

 If bands of burlap, or even 

 paper, six Inches wide, are 

 fastened around the trunks 



fruit ripen prematurely 

 and fall to the ground. 

 The moths deposit their 

 eggs in the calyx (or eye) 

 of the apple just as the 

 blossoms fall. On hatch- 

 ing, the worm eats into 

 the fruit where it lives 

 until it is ready to change 

 to the moth stage. It 

 then leaves the fruit and 

 spins a cocoon in which 

 it undergoes its changes. 

 There are two or more 

 broods in a season. The 

 worms that are in the 

 late apples leave them in 

 the winter and find 



F ig. 26 Flowers of the apple; 

 the proper stage for spraying 

 to control Codlin Moth. 



