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enters the apple from other points than the blossom 

 end — generally where a leaf lies close to the apple or 

 where two apples touch. 



Remedy — The application of Paris green with the 

 bordeaux mixture as directed for the canker worm, 

 has been found to destroy more than seventy per cent 

 of the larvae of the first brood, but as this mixture 

 would disfigure the fruit, if applied for the second 

 brood, other remedies must be employed for the late 

 brood. Pasturing 

 the orchard with 

 sheep, swine or 

 cattle is practiced 

 by many orchard- 

 ists for the pur- 

 pose of keeping 

 this insect and the 

 apple maggot in 

 check, with good 

 results. If sheep 

 or cattle are kept 

 in the orchard it 

 will be necessary 

 to train the trees 

 with a trunk five 

 or more feet high, 

 to prevent injury to the lower branches. Swine some- 

 times will injure the trees by eating the bark or 

 by rooting and destroying the feeding roots. In the 

 former case the protection of the trunk by wire 

 netting or stakes driven down and wired to the trunk, 

 and an abundance of food, will generally prevent them 

 from rooting very deeply, but if this is not effectual 

 "ringing" their noses will be. A large number of fowls 

 will also be sure to destroy most of the insects that go 

 into the ground to undergo their transformations, as 



Fig. 122— The Codlin Moth 



