The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-09-15
From GaylorFs Prize Essay.
THE APPLE-TREE WORM.

THE APPLE-TREE WORM.
There is Il most mischlevous enemy OF
the apple, that attacks the fruit only and
where it prevails is known as the apple
worm. it is IL true caterpillar, not grub
like the plum and cherry weevils; and is
the larv;e of the moth called Carpocapsa
pomonella, the codling or fruit moth. In
some years this apple worm has been so
common in New England that a very large
part of the apples were rendered worthless
! by it. 1t is very rare i'll the interior of the
States. bat we have occasionally met with
i, and it is to be apprehcndcd twill become
still more common. The moth appears in
the latter part of June, or beginning OF Ju
ly, and without puncturing the fruit, depos-
it their eggs in the hollow at the blossom
end Of the fruit, where the skin is most ten
der, and the worm the least liable to dis,ur-
bancc. AS soon as the worm is hatched,
which is in Il few days, it commences eating
into the young fruit, making their way from
presence by the powder thrown ont of the
to late apples, and the ,hin-sLnned summer
fruits suffer the most extensively In the
course of two or three weeks the worm was
burrowcd to the core, and attained its full
size. 70 get rid Of the matters made in its
cXca ava,ions, it cuts round hole through
the side of the apple, and thus is enabled to
; keep its borrow clear Sometimes the
worm leaves the apple before it falls, but
usually the injury it has received causes it
to fall prematurely, when the worm quits it,
and spins cocoon, in which it changes
to chrysais, and in a few days
more the perfect insect appears, to renew
the work Of destruction. These are only
the earliest ones; the later ones do not per-
feet their transformations till the ensuing
spring. The surest mode Of destroying the
apple worm, is to allow swine to run in the
orchard to gather all the fruit that first falls !;
or wh"re this cannot be done, 10 pick them
up by hand and feed them to some animal.
The plum weevil and the apple worm are
distinct insects The plum weevll has
been found in the apple, but the apple worm
never in the plum.
BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE AND PRoNUNCIA-
TON" saw a man what had hidear Of
spakin' the laws. His pilic' 'pinyons was
lib'ral, his nosh'uns fastidjus to a sattnty,
which made him ojus to ev'ry body, man
and woman"
EATING SpIDERs-The Albany Knick-
erbocker says =" good joke is told about
a verdant daughter of the sod, a servant up
town. The first day she made her appear
ance IN the kitchen, the lady of the house
was present to initiate the unsophsticated
daughter of Erin in the science Of cooking
In preparing for dinner, she desired the girl
to brig her the spider The what, name
enqnired Biddy, with great astonishment.
why, the spider,' replied the mistress of
the house. 'The spider, is it-och, holy
Moses, and do you ate spiders iii this coun-
thry-och, what barbarians.'"
A LEGAL QUEsrroN-A man, having
stolen pair of pantalloons, was arrested,
and the matter being thrown into court, the
culprit very innocently asked, How could
a suit be made from pair Of breeches 2"
SIGNIFICANT Co1Nc1DENcE-The Mayor
Of Cincinnati has directed the destruction of
all dogs found in the streets by the city DO.
lice. On one day only of the ensuing
week" says the Boston Courier, "filteen
barrels of Bologna sausages were shipped
for England"