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sisted on the necessity of spraying for the second brood 
my orchards are near. We believe, however, that nor- 
he codling moth breeds generation after generation in 
stricted area, that itmay even be said to have a home- 
[f, therefore, all the worms in an orchard be extermin- 
the chance for outside re-infection under ordinary con- 
small. 
Slution of this fight against the codling moth, band- 
was first thought of. Then this was supplemented by 
ng. The spraying became of most importance, and in 
SUR od banding. In the development of spraying 
ods, the concentrated spray of the hand pump was 
high-pressure spraying, and the number of hap- 
rd sprayings was continually cut down, until to-day we 
¢ that a single spraying can be made completely effective 
h and on time, the maximum saving at the minimum 
Phrough the study of a few decades economic entomol- 
enabled the farmer to save his entire crop instead of 
ag all,—an unselfish investigation that has added an un- 
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it 
have never known any other 
I have found several which 
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ss were | similar to that of promethea. 
___Im ome instance this stalk was about an inch and three quarters in 
net similar case of such a specialization is described by Grote 
American Philosophical Society, Vol. XII, 401, 1902. 
; a Quercus, the larva feeds on Rose, Prunus and others. Polyphe- 
mus is badly parasitized here by ichneumonid, tachimid, and braconid 
flies —Kamt R. Cooumex. 
