524 General Notes. [ August, 
was in many localities so nearly total that scarcely any apples 
were grown, and it follows, as a consequence, that very few cod- 
ling moths were produced to perpetuate the species the following 
year. A second reason, so far as Michigan is concerned, may be 
found in the fact that in no State in the Union have more intelli- 
gent and persevering efforts been made to prevent its ravages. 
Through the columns of the agricultural and horticultural jour- 
nals as well as in the pages of their pomological transactions, the 
simple methods of fighting this pest that have been reported and 
recommended in the Missouri reports have been persistently kept 
before the people, while Prof. Beal, of the Agricultural College, 
has, perhaps, done more good than any one else by showing that _ 
it cost him no more than four cents per tree to keep the bands 
around the trunks, changing them every nine days in the warm 
months, from the first appearance of the worms until the end of 
August, in an orchard of two hundred and fifty trees. I agree 
with him when he asserts that “ if a man will not take the trouble 
to keep his fruit from the worms, he deserves to eat wormy 
apples.” 
Missouri apple growers should take courage from these facts. 
Since my connection with the Department of Agriculture there 
have been sent to me four different kinds of patent bandages to 
be used as traps for this apple-worm, but I can find no advantage 
in any of them over the simple paper bandages first recommended 
by me in 1872, and since very generally employed —Pvof. C. V. 
Riley before the Mo. State Hort. Soc., 1879. 
Dors THE Snowy OwL BREED IN THE Unitep States ?—The 
snowy owl (Nyctea nivea) is a common winter visitant, near 
Chicago. It frequents the haunts of rabbits and various mem- 
bers of the grouse tribe. On the borders of Lake Ontario, 1n 
the great wooded marshes, these birds find thousands of rabbits 
roaming in night time in the frozen tracts. They are caught here 
in large numbers, and the author recalls the capture of fifteen of 
these during the winter of 1875, near Mexico, New York. The 
manner in which they are captured is of no little interest. During 
the day they take to the open lots adjoining the marshes, but 1n 
the night ravage the woods. They are seldom known to leave 
the small area selected for their depredations, unless driven away: 
In the day area they have but three or four places on which they 
alight, and when they are disturbed are sure to fly to one OF — ; 
other of these places, often moving in a circuit for hours. A high 
stake being placed in the center of the open lot, and a small steel- 
trap placed thereon they will speedily take to the stake in prefer- _ 
ence to other resorts, and are consequently caught. No bait 1S — 
placed in the trap, the bird being caught by making simple us¢ 
of the peculiarity of their habits. Their white plumage gives _ 
~ them the appearance of the snow beneath them, so that they may _ 
