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brood will be taken to the cellar with the apples, and 

 they will hibernate in crevices there. I have found them 

 in great numbers under the hoops and between the staves 

 of apple barrels in the cellar. In spring the transforma- 

 tion takes place and the moths escape through the win- 

 dows. It is therefore very important that the cellar 

 windows and doors should be provided with fine wire 

 screens. Upon these screens the moths can be killed as 

 they endeavor to escape. 



The greater number of the worms leave the fruit before 

 it falls. Hogs do not destroy them in quantity, therefore, 

 unless the apples have vrey recently fallen. Under the 

 discussion on picking fruit, page 57, I have referred to a 

 convenient method of thinning apples by means of a sharp 

 hook (figure 13). If hogs run in the orchard they will 

 soon learn to follow the operator and pick up the apples 

 as soon as they fall. Inasmuch as thinning is a necessity 

 to profitable results in most cases, it becomes an econom- 

 ical method of destroying the apple worm. If this prac- 

 tice were generally pursued in connection with the appli- 

 cation of bands, and the use of the following remedy, I 

 am confident that this pest would soon be lessened. 



A remedy proposed of late is to syringe the trees with 

 a mixture of Paris green and water, very early in the 

 season, while the young apples stand erect. The poison 

 lodges in the "blossom end" and destroys the first brood 

 of worms. Later, when the apples turn downward, the 

 poison is washed out by the rains. This remedy was 

 proposed, and its entire success demonstrated, by Pro- 

 fessor A. J. Cook, of the Michigan Agricultural College. 

 A tablespoonful of poison to a gallon of water is sufiicient. 



