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in the year. A thorough spraying with the lime-sulphur 
solution to the strength of 1 gallon of solution in 9 gallons 
of water at the usual time of using this spray, followed 
after a few days by a second application of 1 gallon of 
solution to 10 gallons of water, will put an end to this 
trouble. 
For various kinds of apple-worms and any caterpillars 
or other leaf-eating insects, use the arsenate of lead 
spray. Use this immediately after the blossoms fall. 
Be careful to fill the calyx cup, where the blossom was, 
quite full, and to cover completely every bit of the young 
fruit and foliage. If a second spraying is needed, do it 
ten days later. For green fly, brown fly, black fly, and 
all other kinds of aphides, use the whale oil soap, generally 
in July. You can readily detect their presence by ob- 
serving the leaves beginning to curl at the tips of the 
branches, and by the foliage generally losing freshness, 
becoming sticky and shiny, and appearing to shrivel 
in size. 
Cutworms.—These creatures do not as a rule attack 
fruit-trees, though occasionally, I believe, they do climb 
into quite small trees. They are smooth-skinned, dark 
brown caterpillars, about an inch long, which begin their 
fierce depredations about May, and continue them for 
that month, for June, and sometimes on into July. 
They are very destructive, especially to crops growing on 
newly broken ground. They feed by night, and during 
the day hide in the ground at the foot of the plant they 
are preying upon, an inch or so below the surface. The 
crops they love most to attack are young cabbages, 
caulifowers and similar greens, tomatoes, lettuce, and 
