Show 4 caterpillars these are arrest t pest to far farmers mers though comparatively winless harmless I 1 in acety a I 1 city the e eggs from which alip t apy y itte are hatched batched are placed paced a round around th the e ends of I 1 the branches fo forming aming a wide ring consisting of three pr gr four hun dred eg eggs ggs in th the form orm of short cylinders standing on their ends close together and covered with a thick thick coat boat of brownish waterproof f varnish the caterpillars come forth with the unfolding leaves of the apple and cherry trees in the 06 latter part of april or the b ba ginning of lay alay A the first signs of their acrivi activity V 7 appear in the formation of little angular webs between the fork of the branches a little bela the cluster of eggs under the shelter of these tents tens the caterpillars remain concealed at all times dimes when not eno engaged amed in eating in crawling from cwg to twig trig they spin from their mouths a slender silken thread which is a clew to conduct to their tents they gradually enlarge their nests until they acquire quire a diameter of eight or ten inches I 1 rhey come out together about 9 n to i eat batand and all retire at once when their regular 1 I iu re 0 fin blied during during n bad weather however bhoj rb r b and do u nul ab venture arul t their beir shelter from tho first to the middle of june they begin to leave iho aho trees and wander about a wh le ie and finally get into to some gome cuvier euvie or other place of shelter and mako make their cocoons from fourteen to seventeen lays days thereafter the insect bursts its chrysalis skin forces its way into the softened end of the cocoon and in the miller form it la is of a a nasty I 1 or reddish brown color and I 1 expands fromin from an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half these millers appear in great numbers in july flying about and often entering houses by night at this time they hey lay their eggs preferring the wild cherr cherry V and next the apple where eliere proper attention is not paid to the destruction of them they almost entirely strip the apple and cherry trees of their folia foliage e during the seven weeks of their lifo life in in th f ir caterpillar form the trees where they are re suffered to breed for a succession of y aars ars become prematurely old in conse quene of their efforts to repair at an unseasonable seas tl taue e the loss of their bolige foliage arid and are rendered unfruitful and worse than an useless how are they to be destroyed di daring aring the winter and spring collect and an lestroy destroy the eggs they are then readily discovered and may all be removed with little troit trouble ble I 1 ad when the destruction of the eggs has been neglected ai or overlooked and the caterpillars are building their nests prepare some whale wha leor or train oil the t e stronger and mor more e rancid ali the bettor then take a light pole of convenient congenie con venie nt len length with a swab upon the end and rub the oil into the nests it is well walto to rub it also upon up the limbs s just above and below the nests this operation is best performed boino borno porno misty or foggy morning iba before the worms vor ra a leave their nests I 1 ati by abundant experience that it will anti entity I ah AV ovy ov y bat baat URDU upon which it is i performed and every caterpillar ip in the nest ad when the t time i I 1 mp jor for thia process is is past and the begin to appear in july 1 hang n upon 1 the trees wide mouthed bottles i que one third filled w ath ach two parts of vinegar aud ald on one of molasses qed 3 lit in thia way myriads m may ay iy be caught I 1 I 1 in my imal i garden g atae I 1 made this experiment e last st 8 season eagon with 24 bottles hung bang upon the fence in seven days from june f caught 42 quarts of df millers illers in and flies but the amount gradually decreased de cread to about half calf ao a pini wt a day I 1 then placed the bottles i in my iny large garog e pear vae 11 and the number was greatly increased the we I 1 whole amount thus co aught during the season was four bushels and 12 quarts ROBINSON new haven palladium I 1 |