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Show SPRAY AND AVOID GROWING WORMY APPLES The coddling moth, the cause of vorms In npples, Is a night flying moth. It la grayish In color nnd re-emblcR re-emblcR Bonicwliat the bark of apple trees. They appear in the oichard about a week after the blossoms full. The female lajs her egg" 2G to 60 separately usunlly on tho upper surface sur-face of tho leaven and occuntonally on the small apples) and then dlea. In about ten days the eggs hatch, the atva ci awl to tho young nppjea nnd enter at tho calyx end, nnd usually eat their way to tho core. In '15 to 20 days they become full gtown, leave the apple and crawl down the tioe, hiding themselves under the dough bark, leaves or lubblteh. Hero they spin cocoons and go Into the, I'estlng stuge fioin which they emerge In nbout 10 or 20 days as adult moths. This, the second brood of moths, lay their eggs which hatch In about 7 days. These worms, eat their yay Into thu apple through (lie side. After becoming full grown, they leave the apple, hide under the rough bark on the trunk, In rubbish, etc.,, spin cocoons, and puss the winter win-ter In tho pupal stage. CONTItOL MEASURES A very, effective njd to spraying is thnt of bunding tho trees with strips of burlap bur-lap -ten. to twelve inches wldo with tho topedge folded. Wrap around the tree twice, draw top edge tight and fasten with tack. Worma crawl under this and are trapped. Hands should he applied about June 15 and discontinued the 1st of August, llv uove hands every U'.n days, dostroy I tie larvao and replace the bunds again. Spiny with arbenale of lead after the blossoma fall and before tht r.lx closes, using I 1-4 pounds of powder to CO gallons of water. Apply Ap-ply this spray w)th nt least 150 )0itudH pressure imlng a courun spray (not a inlst. Voice tho spray Into tho calyx cup, blossotn end, and be I bora I in dienchliig the tioe and see hat the spray, Is applied directly Into In-to the calyx. -Success will bo secured by thoroughness. A second spray should bo applied ton to twelve daya later, similar to the first, a' third spray may bo, ilpplled about thirty days later and this Mhould be a fine mist Some orchnids piopeijy sprayed last year with two applications wcro W5 per cent worm fiee and one orchard or-chard about 98 per cent womi free. In cu,se 'ou have aphis or spider iiilte on your trees a'dd 3-4 pint hlacic leak (tobacco solution) 40 to q I gallons of water. In small prop,,- I tlons uso 3 to 4 level tablespoons r I powder arsenate of lead anj i t.a. I spoonful black, leaf 40 to 1 gall ,n. I of wnter. This spray applies to p. ur I trees also. The coddling moth spi- will also control the (en caterpillar. I STATE BOAHD OF AORICULTl Itr I H. V. Mathew- I County Inspect, r |