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may be applied with arsenate of lead or'tobacco. and may precede cyanid- 

 ing, but is inadvisable with Paris green, oil mixtures, resin or soap. To- 

 bacco is inadvisable with Paris green, but may be used with arsenate of 

 lead, oil mixtures and soap. Resin wash without lime increases the 

 tendency of arsenicals to burn; with lime its nature is altered. 



CODLING MOTH BANDS. 



Trapping the larvae in a band encircling stem of tree is a valuable 

 accessory remedy for Codling Moth. Band should be of heavy hessian 

 or other rough, thick material cut about eight inches wide. Secure lower 

 half close against bark, and turn upper half down over it loosely. Do 

 this by binding stout cord about middle, or by drawing snugly around 

 tree, and catching ends at middle with double hook of bent wire, or 

 with nail used as a pin or over a headless nail driven into tree, and then 

 rolling top-half down. Apply middle of November, and watch much- 

 infested tree. When larvae found there, make a general search every 

 ten days until fruit off. If left on through winter, examine about ist 

 September for larvae, which may have come up from ground. Abolish 

 other hiding places, removing loose bark and filling holes with cement. 



FRUIT TREE NETS. 



Covering trees with light cotton netting efficiently protects fruit from 

 "birds, moths, and fruit flies. With great care netting lasts for several 

 crops. Against birds use netting with three-quarters inch mesh. Smallest 

 birds get through inch mesh. Against fruit moths and flies use cheapest 

 unbleached one-tenth inch mesh mosquito netting. Sew strips together to 

 get width one foot greater than distance from ground to ground over tree, 

 and cut same length. Lift carefully over tree, draw snug against foliage, 

 and tie alternate corners together through fork of trunk. Tree then en- 

 closed except for slits beneath. To close these, roll opposed edges 

 together, and sew loosely or fasten with cheap safety pins. Bags of 

 waterproof netting for protection of single fruits or clusters of grapes are 

 sold by some florists. 



VEDALIA LADYBIRD. 



Vedalia is of use only for Australian Bug, and this it almost invariably 

 finds without assistance. In the rare case of necessity, a colony of about 

 two dozen specimens is supplied by Division of Entomology on submittal 

 of large twigs heavily infested with bug, and payment of 2is. 



PESTS WITH TRANSPLANTS, SEEDS, ETC. 



Much trouble with pests is a direct development from infestation 

 present on young trees, vines, cuttings, vegetable and flower transplants, 

 etc., at the time of planting. Introductions whenever practicable should 

 "be closely scanned for insect eggs, aphides, scale insects, mites, borers, 

 nematode swellings, root enlargement due to nematodes. etc. Tobacco, 

 tomato, lettuce, etc., may fail in new land through root gall-worm brought 

 from the seed-bed. Lucerne nematode is spread by minute bits of 

 stem accompanying seeds from infested lands. 



