SUGGESTIONS TO OWNERS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY. 



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tions wliicli are now only slightly infested less interest is taken in the 

 matter because of the fact that few of the citizens thoroughly under- 

 stand the damage which these pests are capable of inflicting. 



Owners of orchards are advised that if modern methods of horti- 

 cultural practice are adopted it is possible to put their trees on a 

 paying commercial basis in spite of the presence of these insects. 



Too many New Eng- 

 land orchards yield no 

 great revenue at the 

 present time because of 

 neglect, which is either 

 due to lack of interest 

 in caring for the trees 

 or to ignorance of the 

 possibility of making 

 them sources of reve- 

 nue. (See fig. 20.) 

 Few intelligent farmers 

 expect to harvest a 

 profitable crop of pota- 

 toes without giving the 

 land proper culture and 

 treating the vines to 

 protect them from the 

 ravages of the potato 

 beetle, and if the owner 

 of fruit trees expects 

 an income from this 

 source he must give his 

 orchards the best of 

 care and protect the 

 trees and fruit from the 

 many insect enemies 

 which prey upon them. 

 The orchards of New 

 England should be thor- 

 oughly pruned and trees which do not yield good varieties of fruit or 

 which are in poor condition should be cut down and burned. Those 

 remaining should be sprayed to destroy the insect pests which already 

 attack them, and if the gipsy and brown-tail moths are present the 

 additional expense of fighting them will not prevent the growing of 

 a profitable crop. 



Owners of woodland on which the trees are of marketable size 

 should cut the timber if the gipsy moth is prevalent in the region. 

 Care should be taken in doing this work to cut out all poor and 



Fig. 19.— Map of New England, showing present area infested 

 with the gipsy moth and the brown-tail moth. The black area is 

 that infested with the gipsy moth; the brown-tail moth occupies 

 all of the area to the right of the black line. (Original.) 



