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ORCHARD MOTH CATERPILLARS. 
With regard to Bees, as the trees should not be sprayed when they are 
in blossom, this gets over any fear of Bees being poisoned. But until 
the use and methods of application of Paris-green are thoroughly 
understood, we must still give the caution, whether needed or not, 
never to pasture or feed stock, poultry, or any other animals beneath 
trees which are being, or have recently been, sprayed with Paris- 
green. 
Further on I give notes as to the nature of Paris- or Emerald- 
green, and cautions as to the points that need to be attended to in its 
use ; also notes of appliances for its proper distribution ; but (in order 
to give the observations in some sort of continuity) I add from those 
received two of the most notable from known observers of our success 
in saving the fruit crops, with observations of the satisfactory diminu¬ 
tion of Winter Moth presence, found at sticky-banding time in autumn, 
where our treatment had been carefully carried out. 
Report of Plum crop at Toddington .—On September 4th, Mr. Wise 
gave the following satisfactory report, from the Toddington Fruit 
Grounds, of the condition of the Plum crop :—“ I am making prepara¬ 
tions for commencing the operation of grease-banding on October 1st. 
You will be pleased to hear that we have a grand crop of Plums, and 
I attribute this entirely to our exertions in keeping down cater¬ 
pillars. No one else in the country appears to have many, and we are 
making fabulous prices.” 
It must be borne in mind (independently of the especial considera¬ 
tions which are the subject of this paper) that the large output of 510 
tons of out-door fruit, which has been harvested at Toddington this, 
season, and which has been noticed in so many of the newspapers, 
has, of course, to be counter-balanced by the large amount of expendi¬ 
ture incurred; and that, whilst fruit-farming will certainly pay those 
who can patiently wait, still it is a matter which must not in any way 
be looked upon as a profitable venture without a good deal of uncer¬ 
tainty in the early years of its formation. 
But the greater the outlay on this importantly increasing branch 
of British farm industry, the greater is also the need to have at hand 
the best means of preventing the results of the outlay being as rapidly 
and fully swept from the trees as if a devastation of locusts had 
taken possession; and I think I can do no wrong in adding that, 
in almost the latest letter which I received from Captain Corbett, 
the Superintendent of the Toddington Fruit Grounds, shortly 
before his much-to-be-regretted decease, he spoke in the strongest 
terms of the benefit received in saving the fruit crops by means 
of the spraying treatment, on which we had been so carefully experi¬ 
menting. 
Mr. Masters, of Evesham, also, as noted in the following observa- 
