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Show B Codlin Moth Treatment. H In a recent number of the Orange B ' JuddFaYmer, Prof. F. vv Card of the H , ,. Nebraska Experiment Station, Ituti a B ' few words to say about treatment for H ' codlin moth, and wu clip Jho same: H Tito codlin moth should be banished. B ' This is not cosy. Spraying alone ns H jjeneruly recommended, will not do it. B The moth is not easily poisioncd. Lights B in the orchard do not attract it. Sticky B lly paper will not hold the larvae. Only B v four-fifths of tllu larvae enter at t ho B julyx, Late spraying with Paris Green B ttlone is notellective. Spraying befoin B tho calyx closes does much good. Three B sprayings at Gibbon saved 80 per cent B of the fruit. In laboratory trials, kcr- B osono and emulsion sprayed while un- B liatched egea ara on the leaves, is ef- B 'fectivc. Late spraying with Paris Green B Jiud Bordeaux mixture combined, with B -,.,. wiValo oil soap orVith lead acetate and B ' .sodium arseuito, is safe and docs some B , goofi. Scraping the bark and tacking H aul , paper liands.arsund tlie" trunk wlmii the B J larvae are pupating .vlll calcTmnany. B I suggest that you spray thoroughly H with Paris Green within a week' after H tne blossoms fall, beforo the calyx H closes, Try keroscno emulsion when H the eggs are b.inglaid upon tho leaves, H about tho first week in June If this V fails use Paris Green combined with B Bordeaux mixture instead. Keep the H trees smooth and use paper bands a- H - .round the trunk when tho larvae are K ready to pupate, about the last week in B June. Hemovo and kill the larvae one B iind two weeks later. Place bandd on B ngain tho 1 ust week in August. Leave B them until all apples are out o( the or- B chard, then observe for yourself how B many of these precautions you can B |