the; apple; maggot. 173 



are found in apples from before the middle of August until into 

 the winter, the watch for them must extend over several months. 



If enough hogs or sheep to eat the windfalls are kept under 

 infested trees from the second week in August until the fruit is 

 finally gathered, all the maggots in windfalls will be got rid of. 

 Of course the same results, as far as destroying the maggot is 

 concerned, can be obtained by having windfalls faithfully 

 gathered during this time and fed to stock, or made into cider. 

 In some localities the entire orchard will be involved and the 

 task will be a hard and wearisome one, but in many places, where 

 only a few trees are infested, the maggots can be destroyed with 

 comparatively little labor. 



Many maggots may be found in fruit at canning time. Here 

 the housewife can help the orchardist by burning infested refuse 

 or killing the maggots with boiling water. Where chickens are 

 kept, the parings can be thrown to them, for they will see that 

 no creeping thing escapes. 



Stored fruit remains to be considered. If this is kept in closed 

 boxes or barrels the maggots cannot escape, but will stay in the 

 bottom and enter the pupa state there. As each box is emptied 

 of the fruit, the litter at the bottom in which the little brownish 

 pupae remain should be carefully poured out and burned. 



Another question is, what is to be done with infested fruit on 

 the market? Growers and wholesale dealers can do much to 

 prevent increase of the apple maggot by destroying fruit too 

 much infested to be sold or by giving it to some one with stock. 

 Dealers will not appreciate the danger so much as growers them- 

 selves and it would doubtless pay orchardists to explain to deal- 

 ers in their vicinity the danger from infested fruit and to make 

 some arrangement for disposing of it. 



With the home-grown maggots put out of the way, we have 

 still to consider the immigrants coming from other states. 

 Badly infested fruit is imported. It would seem to be well 

 worth while for the State of Maine to prevent this by enacting a 

 law, prohibiting importation of infested apples, with an appro- 

 priation sufficient to insure at each entrance port the inspection 

 of imported fruit, at least of the early varieties from which 

 most is to be feared. 



The fight against the apple maggot, while exceedingly tedious, 

 is not more difficult than that against many other insect pests. 

 It is useless to wait for simpler or easier methods. Sprays may 



