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years. He had personally observed it for several seasons in 

 cue of the orchards of Cornell University, N. Y., infesting a few 

 varieties. 



Lintner writes in 1885 : "The most serious account of its 

 injuries have been received from Vermont. In New Hampshire 

 in a few localities it has ruined entire orchards, (Rept. Comm. 

 Agr'l. for 1881, p. 190.") * * * "Mr. L. L. Whitman writes 

 from North Auburndale, Mass., I had hundreds of bushels of the 

 finest fruit rendered worthless by the apple maggot last year." 

 "From Franklin, Delaware County, N. Y., larvae have been 

 reported." Personally Prof. Lintner captured the flies occasionally 

 at Schenectady, N. Y., from the 3d to the 27th. of July. 



Prof. Cook in 1884 writes : "Last year I received specimens from 

 Delavan County, Wisconsin, with the information that it was 

 doing great damage. This year the eneny has attacked us on our 

 own ground. I know from personal observation that in Michigan 

 in Ingham and adjoining counties it has wrought considerable 

 mischief." 



The following predictions made by Walsh in 1867 are almost 

 prophetic. "There can be but little doubt that the descendants 

 of the improved and highly civilized apple maggots in the East 

 will, in processs of time and by slow degrees, spreid gradually 

 to the West, or they may be suddenly introduced in a barrel of 

 Eastern apples into some point at the West, and thence radiate in 

 all directions and colonize the country." 



We find no mention of its occurrence in Maine in any pub- 

 lication outside of the State. In the State it is referred to in the 

 Agricultural and Pomological Society Reports, in newspaper 

 accounts and in a recent Bulletin issued by the Expt. Station at 

 Orono. 



The pest was undoubtedly introduced in Maine in early fruit 

 shipped from adjoining States. Mr. T. S. McLellan, (Me. State 

 Pom. Soc'y Rept., 1883, p. 43) says: "Some five or six years 

 since, I noticed that the earliest sweet apples we received from the 

 South were infested with a minute worm, which had thoroughly 

 perforated the fruit. Three years since, I noticed my earliest 

 sweet apples were similarly affected, and last season all my 

 sweet apples and most of my pleasant tart apples, such as the 

 Haley, Hurlbut, Nodhead, Primate and Porter were more or less 

 infested." Our observations confirm this as we have the past 



