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storing any accumulated fruit in a tight box or bin, and, finally, 

 destroying the refuse. Every provident orchardist should gather 

 the windfalls as a matter of economy. If not profitable to feed 

 they should still be destroyed to prevent the increase of insect 

 pests and fungi which they harbor. Gathering the windfalls for 

 the express purpose of checking Trypeta has been tried and found 

 effectual. The mating of cider from maggoty apples might be 

 profitable, and would afford those who drink it both meat and 

 drink at the same time, though it would not, if known, make a 

 very appetizing beverage. We might as well save the trouble and 

 expense of manufacture and eat the infested apples at once, or as 

 Walsh has tersely expressed it, "Eat the devil as to drink his 

 broth." If not needed to feed stock, they could be thrown into 

 pits in convenient places in the orchaid and after frost the refuse 

 covered a foot or two with earth. It would be better to gather 

 the windfalls every day and make thorough work of it. A boy 

 could do it. If gathered every day it would not take much time. 

 If impossible to gather every day, twice a week would destroy 

 many, but would take longer to check the pest. In early varieties 

 the gathering should begin by July 15th, and from late varieties 

 as they begin to ripen and drop. 



(h) Allowing enough sheep or swine in the orchard to eat the 

 windfalls, would involve less time and expense and insure probably 

 more immediate destruction. They should be turned in each day 

 for a time, or kept in the orchard all the time from July 15th until 

 the apples are gathered. It is some ti'ouble and expense to 

 destroy the windfalls. A troublesome pest necessarily involves 

 time and trouble, and to exterminate Trypeta will require deter- 

 mined and thorough action. 



Thorough and universal destruction of the windfalls is the most 

 hopeful method, and fruit growers are urged to give it a thorough 

 trial for two years. 



3. Destroy the refuse from apples stored, marketed or used for 

 home consumption. This is based on the fact that marketed fruit 

 early and late is often alive with maggots. That pupte in abun- 

 dance are found in the bins and barrels where fruit has been 

 stored. The chances that these larvse find the conditions for 

 development are much less than with those that go into the ground 

 from the windfalls, but the pest may be spread by throwing in- 

 fested marketed fruit on the ground. 



(a) Infested, early apples, foreign and domestic, in market 



