Show CIGAR CASE BEARER to tile tho orett of the country from a mcw pet A 1 comparatively new nev pest of fruit if cices tices cos is the insect called callad the cigar cruc case beator bearer which last lear ear probable 13 il ranked inked ext to the bud moth in new york in owin to its ils small size and peculiar habits the in eat ri ii an ai stage will be rarely noticed by a fruit grower and yet vet the second secona one of the curious suits or cases cares which hicls A the lie lutle little caterpillar wears is co ons cills to reveal its presence to the avs arrer jt it appears as a moth efrom from abbat tile the middle of juno Juro until about tire the middle of cuir awl arl lays it cabout A cai on the leaves leave of if fi uit int trees after couple of weeks atnee hatch to in minute caterpillars caterpillar chich w aich at once cat fill ounzil the skin of tile ali leaf and mine in the lic leaving a tiny fians patent line behind them afar afur a couple lie of coaks or more they cut small bits outer out of the I 1 he leaves leave and loll 1011 them into minute tubes or cases w mathin YR N CIGAR CASE nearer which they rings pass tho the winter T they hey cease to feed about the middle of september and do not begin again until a bout about the middle of april having passed the lite winter attached to tile the tv digs of the tree after A eler feeding achile aft alle they make a second and larger case shape shaped like a diminutive cigar and from which they can stretch forth the forn fornario aril part of the body and enting eating a circular hole lar lare ge enough to admit the body commence toca tout out stance of the leaves leaving the lower and upper skins intact it still retains iti ting its cigar shaped home and retires into it when at rest or disturbed in june to feed fassea themselves to the leaf and ina in a short time enter the chrysalis stage from which the ono moths issue T these he ge cigar biffar ulce like objects can call be seen moving over the leaf of a plant although se arcely more than one fifth of an inch in lebirth and A when hen disturbed tl the c little cra creatures tures retreat into them lite first indication of the insects insect presence occurs on the swelling buds 1 at I apple pear or plum trees two or three have often octen been seen on a single bud busily at bork eating catin holes ma in them no larger than a piu pin the wink on the expanded foliage is seen in etoni zed dead areas which have near their center a clear cut round hole bole through one skin usually on tile the under side of the leaf the lar salso often attack the growing fruit the cornell station says that the insect can be kept ia check by two or three h sprayings spray ings with parts pans green if used at the rate of one pound to two tw hundred gallons of nater ater the birst application which aich may lie be effectively combined with the bordeaux mixture for the apple scab fungus should be made as ab soon as the little cas cabus sare are seen on the opening buds A second and perhaps a third application may be necessary at intervals of front from four to seven days on badly infested trees cheso will alho check k tile the bud moth it has also been found in if canada that a kerosene emulsion stiff av applied at the same time as directed for parts pans preen green is a still more effective check upon the case bearer and will vill probable be so on an the bud moth in pear orchards this insect and the cau call be checked by a s spray pray of 0 the same emulsion N hen ea tho the leaves are arc opening it should be remembered that a fruit tree ought never to be stirn sprayed V ed I 1 when ben in blossom and that success in any ease case mill w ill depend almost entirely upon the thor with w aich the work is dyne N Y world |