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few trees this would be the safest method. 

 Home-made troughs are liable to prove defec- 

 tive. Spraying the foliage with one of the 

 arsenites is an effectual remedy. The appli- 

 cation should be made when the worms are 

 young, and if done thoroughly it will not be 

 necessary to repeat it. So successful has this 

 application proved during the past season, that 

 a gentleman who has had experience in its use 

 has offered to clear orchards from the pest at 

 ten cents per tree, and thinks it can be done 

 at half that cost. As this evil is still local 

 and is comparatively slow in spreading, owing 

 to the disability of the female moth, and as it 

 is possible, by combined effort, utterly to ex- 

 terminate the insect, it is a question whether 

 legislative penalties should not be imposed 

 upon those who neglect their trees. 



Fall-Web Worm (^Ryphantria textor}. At 

 the South are two generations of this worm, 

 but at the North the moth deposits its eggs in 

 broad patches on the under side of the leaves in 

 early June. The larvae soon hatch and feed in 

 clusters, covering their feeding-ground with a 

 silken web. When full grown they are about 

 an inch in length, and are covered with long 

 straight hairs. At this stage they suddenly 

 scatter and feed in all direction, descending to 

 the ground, and form their cocoons in Septem- 



