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balance the accelerating influence of the artificial heat to which the}' 

 were subjected. But this is surmise. 



The third lot consisted of worms that emerged from the apples 

 enclosed the first week in August in a covered half barrel before 

 referred to, and allowed to lie undisturbed in their original cocoons 

 through the winter in a cold shed. The cover was removed June 1st. 

 There were found the remains of a very few dead moths that must 

 have completed their transformation in the fall, but of thirty worms 

 then torn from the cocoons every one was still an active larva with 

 the exception of two very small pnpse. June 18th, the rest of these 

 cocoons were examined and found to contain active larva?. The 

 first of these emerged in moth form July loth, and the last observed 

 was as late as August Gth. 



Until some specimen can be carried through their entire transfor- 

 mation without being compelled to build new cocoons or exposed to 

 any unnatural conditions it will be impossible to state accurately the 

 natural duration of the cocoon stage, but I feel warranted in sa^'iug 

 that it lasts in the great majority of cases from August to at least 

 the last of the following June. In all, I succeeded in bringing out 

 about fifty perfect codling moths, the first, with two exceptions, that 

 I had ever seen, and the first that I had ever recognized. It is a 

 neat little gravish moth with bright copper}' spots on its wings, by 

 which it will generally be recognized. 



Remedies. As before intimated, I have mereh' dabbled in this 

 part of the subject. I have had all the worm}- apples picked up 

 several times in a season and either sent out of the neighborhood or 

 buried, finding the latter method of disposing of them too laborious, 

 and as to the former, not reaping much satisfaction from the reflec- 

 tion that I had got rid of the pest at some risk to the man who took 

 them to feed his pigs. In 1882, all the wormy apples that could be 

 found were picked from the trees twice during August ; and I am 

 inclined to try that again, though it did not free me from the pest, 

 and I have not the data to tell whether it had any appi-eeiable effect. 

 In 1882, and again in 1883, paper bandages were applied to all the 

 bearing trees and many moths thus trapped. I shall surely continue 

 this. Until better informed, I shall not take pains to apply the 

 bandages before July 15, unless to avoid a pressure of business 

 during haying time ; may possibly examine them about August 10 

 or 15, to catch any early worms that might form a second brood, 

 and shall be in no hurry to look at them again till some convenient 



