Show i jfe y ir st fag bui i ui PREVENT OUTBREAK OF MOTH arsenical spraying Is one of most efficient means of eradicating in jurious little pest collecting and destroying the agga egga of this insect may entirely prevent an outbreak of the tussock moth the eggs are deposited in clusters and appear as a mass of white troth about one halt inch wide and an inch and a halt long the eggs are held firmly together and most of the clusters are located in plain view on the trunks and branches of the trees tussock moth caterpillar and injured fruit and leaf where they may be easil scraped oa with a hoe or bome other sharp in strument ment and destroyed these agga egga be carefully collected in the spring and a summer collection should also bo made next to destroying the eggs the use of arsenical sprays is iho most efficient means of preventing injury by this pest more care in coating the under sides of the leaves than is usually observed in the regular applications of bordeaux mixture and poison that are made preceding and at blossoming bloss oming time would do much to prevent an outbreak of this and other leaf feed ing pests however it the cater pil lara are not discovered until they have begun to eat the fruit it Is advisable to use larger amounts of the poison than Is customary in spraying tor the coddling moth precaution should be taken to coat the fruit and both surfaces of the leaves with the spraying mixture the and fruit of small trees of even occasional branches of larga trees that are being injured by the caterpillars may be saved from further loss by shaking when the branch is jarred the caterpillar sus itself by a strand of silk and will drop to the ground if the shaking he continued A padded mallet 01 pole can be used to jar the branches and the insects as they drop may ba caught on a sheet or curcillo cur cullo catcher this is a slow tedious method ol 01 the pest but by this means further injury to the fruit crop may often be prevented in conjunction with collecting the egg masses or spraying banding will serve to protect the trees from rein fest atlon by migrating caterpillars this Is often desirable when there are badly infested trees in the am mediate vicinity the band may ba made of a strap of raw cotton or sticky fly paper the cotton should be tightly fastened about the middle so that it Is loose above and below the barbed hairs of the caterpillar become en tangled in the cotton fibers and it unable to pass over the band in or der to be effective the bands should injury to apples by the kuock moth bo renewed from time to time as they become soiled or matted by rain tha bands should be employed during tha months of june july and august the same measures that are becom mended for the treatment of this pest in orchards are also applicable to tha treatment 0 shade trees only bera more emphasis should b placed on the value of banding the trees and collecting the egg masses Spray las shade trees Is not practicable for th average property owner because tin trees are usually of large size such operations require and men haeng considerable knewt edge of spraying methods spraying of shade trees is not done to any great extent except where the work t directed b the municipal however it is lix the power of resident to completely protect trees by destroying the egg basw and banding the trees to prevent r infestation by migrating ail around spray I 1 itne la a good pra col trew |