THE 



TENT 

 6ATER= 

 PILLAR 



BY 

 CLARENCE M. WEED 



The caterpillars lay their eggs on the branches of apple trees, and 

 being hatched by the warmth of the spring, they form clusters, and 

 inclose themselves in a web, whence they issue forth in quest of food, 

 and destroy the leaves of this and other trees.— feremy Belknap, His- 

 tory of New Harnpshire, 1792. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE 

 ' AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



DURHAM 



Bulletin 38 



August, 1896 



