The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-06-14
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
VIC AppIe WorIlI.

AHG ApRAG HUAAAAs
The codling moth or miller, the
parent Of the worm found inside the
apple, makes its appearance the last
OF June or the fore part Of July,
when the female spends her time
and energies in the orchard, flying
from apple to apple, depositing her
eggs on the blossom end of the fruit.
1t is estimated that single moth
will deposit not less than one hun
bred eggs on as many apples. From
these soon batch u little worm that
Immediately begins to eat its way
into the core of theapple. The worm
remains inside till it completes its
growth, and having destroyed the vi
tally OF the half.grown fruit, the
latter falls prematurcly from the
tree, either before or after the worm
leaves it. The full grown worm
now seeks some shelter secure from
birds or other enemies, under which
to spin a silken cocoon in which to
undergo its transformation. The
most Of these pupe remain wound
up in these silken cocoons till the
following spring But some of the
earliest Of them, however, complete
their transformations and enter the
perfected or moth state in few days,
and soon deposit eggs, as did their
mothers, in the Blossom end OF the
apple for second brood Of worms
These worms from this second brood
are the only ones found in the apples
in the fall, So destructive are these
little pests that in many orchards
nearly half the apples are ruined for
market by them. Many farmers rec
ommeud allowing sheep and swine
to run in the orchard to deyour the
wormy apples as they fall from trees,
This is good as far as it goes; but as
many of the worms leave the apple
before the latter fall, and as the half
grown apples are not readily eaten
by sheep or swine, the preventive is
not sure one. The plan now rec
commended by etonologists for rid
ding our orchards of them is to wind
around the trunkso of the trees, bands
of straw, paper, or old cloth about
the time the worms leave theapples,
when, in their search for secure pla-
ces to spin their cocoons, many Of
them will crawl under these banda
ges for that purpose. BY examining
these bandages two or three times Il
month, thousands of Larvae may be
killed. 0ne-half thus killed (allow-
ing one-half,to be females,) will be
so many less to deposit each 100 or
more eggs on us many different APP
Piles. BY allowing sheep or swine
free access to the orchard many of
the worms will be destroyed by them.
By united efforts on the part of the
orchardists in trapping them in this
manner referred to, their destructive
influence can be very much lessened.
AS both sexes of this moth, unlike
the females of the canker- worm moth
are provided with wings for flying,
the tar bands recommended for the
one will not answer for the other, but
the paper bandages will. Ifthe loose
scaly bark (their natural hiding
places be scraped off the tree the
bandages will be the more effective,
as more Of them will find their way
beneath them. But, unless these
bandages are examined occasionally,
and the larvae killed, they will do
more harm than good, as they will
afford the worms just the place they
were searching for to pass their chry-
sails state in secure from birds.