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■mth timber. It is also more numerous in timbered 

 regions than on the prairie. 



It can iiy and does fly, especially during the heat of 

 the day; so cotton bandages around the trunk, and all 

 like contrivances, are worse than useless. 



It prefers smooth-skinned to rough-skinned stone- 

 fruit. 



The Miner Plum, otherwise known as the Hinckley 

 Plum, and other varieties of that wild species known as 

 the Chickasaw Plum {Prunus Chicasa), are less liable to 

 its attacks than other kinds. 



Both the male and female puncture the fruit for food, 

 by gouging hemispherical holes; but the female alone 

 makes the crescent-mark above described. 



Scarcely any eggs are deposited after the stone of the 

 fruit has become hard. 



The cherry when infested remains on the tree, and the 

 preventive measures that may be applied to other fruits 

 will consequently not hold good with this. 



The larva cannot well undergo its transformations in 

 earth which is dry or baked, and severe drouths are con- 

 sequently prejudicial to its increase. 



It often matures in apples and pears, especially in 

 early varieties, but in the great majority of instances the 

 egg either fails to hatch or the young larva perishes in a 

 few days after hatching. 



Artificial Eemedies. — The remedies are few. They 

 consist of prevention, by destroying the fallen fruit 

 which contains the grub, and by jarring down and catch- 

 ing and killing the beetles. There are a variety of means 

 which can be employed for destroying the grubs which fall 

 with the fruit before they enter the ground. It can be 

 done either by hand or by stock. Hogs and poultry are 

 of undoubted use for this purpose. Of course, the first 

 year they are used they do not in the least decrease the 



