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care that the larva? in the gathered fruit be Dot allowed to trans- 

 form, and destroying the windfalls. The apples gathered for 

 home consumption and for market may contain many maggots, as 

 our observations show the larvae are still in the fruit when ripe. 

 The chances that these larva? find the conditions for development 

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

 windfalls, but the pest maybe spread through marketed fruit or 

 be perpetuated from fruit stored or used at home. 



a. Infested apples in market places are a fruitful source of the 

 pest, and fruit dealers should be required to burn or bury all 

 apple refuse and not throw it on the ground. 



b. The maggots in stored apples soon leave them and go into 

 the pupa state in the barrels or bins. If marketed the pupa? go 

 with the fruit in the barrel and may spread the pest. In bins and 

 barrels in the cellar the pupa? no doubt retain their vita'ity and 

 the files emerge in the spring. As a precaution the bins should 

 be carefully swept and the barrels shaken into a tight vessel and 

 the refuse buried or burned. Apple refuse from home use should 

 be destroyed and not thrown on the ground. 



The maggots are not able to crawl out of a box and the 

 refuse from market places. &c, could be thrown into a tight box 

 or barrel and the maggots prevented from going into the ground. 

 The refuse could occasionally be buried a foot or so deep. 



3. Thorough and universal destruction of the windfalls is the 

 most hopeful means of checking the pest. To carefully gather 

 the fallen fruit every day from the early and later varieties from 

 Aug. 1st until Nov. 1st and bum or feed it, would- destroy many 

 of the maggots. Sheep or hogs might be allowed the range of the 

 orchard to eat the windfalls. To leave the windfalls on the ground 

 would favor the most rapid multiplication of the pest. It is 

 some trouble to gather the windfalls but it would be little com- 

 pared with the benefits derived, if the pest can be checked. This 

 fly annually destroys much fruit in some parts of the State and its 

 ravages are increasing, and it threatens, unless checked, to be the 

 most seiious pest to apple growers. Its ravages are somewhat 

 circumscribed but it will spread unless checked. Such a serious 

 enemy needs concerted and determined action. The importance 

 of rigidly adhering to this method for at least two years cannot 

 be to strongly urged upon fruit growers whose orchards are 

 infested. 



4. If the above methods do not succeed there is a radical one 

 that cannot fail. The destruction of the entire apple crop for one 



