The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-06-23
Tine Apple Worm.

enemies with which the fruit-groweI
has to contend; living IS II. does. hidden
from view, it is not very often de-
stroycd by either Birds or insects. It
does not aDniine its attacks to the apple,
but also mtests crab-apples, pears,
peaches. AID even plums. The last
brood of worms spin their coco6ns h
the autumh and remain in them I'M
changed until the following spring,
when they afe Changed to. chrysalides,
and about two weeks later to moths;
the latter are commonly called sscodling-
moths. About the middle of May
these meshssdsposit their eggs 3singly
upon the young fruit, usually placing
them upon the blossom end, but some
times also upon the opposite end, and
rarely upon the sides. AS soon as
Matched the young worm burrows into
the fruit, casting its excrements and
other refuse matter out of the hole by
which it had entered the fruit. It
reaches its full growth in about one
month, and then measures about one
half an inch ia length. Its body is pro-
vided with sixteen feet is of a yellow
,ish color usually tinged with pink, and
marked with few polished, raised,
dark-colored spots; the head and a spot
on top of the first segment are polished
brown. When about to assume the
chrysalis form the worm deserts the
fruit and crawls beneath q piece Of
loose bark, or any other object which
offers it shelter, and after gnawing
out an oval cavity spins therein thin
Whltish cocoon. There are two broods
OF these worms produced in one year,
but these broods overlap each other, so
that worms of all sizes may be found at
almost any season of the year. The
fruit infested by the worms of the first
brood usually falls to the ground
before the worms have deserted
1T, but that infested 4 by those of
the second brood usually remains upon
the trees until harvested, and the
worms are. thus carried to the store
house or cellar.
< In our warfare upon this insect our
first work in the spring should be to
carefully examine the bins and barrels
in which the apples have. been stored
and destroy all of the worms and co.
coons that can be !, found; this can
probably be done the easiest by the use
OF hot water. Later. in the season the
ground beneath the infested trees
should be examined daily and the
fallen apples gathered and either fed to
the hogs, or such use made Of them as
Will destroy the worms which they con-
tain; or, if the hogs are allowed to run
in the orchard, they will devour the
fallen fruit, and thus save us the trouble
OF gathering it.
trofAwJ Cook Of the. Michigan
ATGnitpFnl relleg reeemmerlds thor
oughly Swinging the Infested trees
with solution of Paris-green, or Lon
.don- purple and water, using two table,
sspoonfuls Of the former, OF one. Of the
latter, to two gallons of water. He
states that on the 25th of May, and
! again on the Goth of June,s he thor
ougghly sprayed the sanev Siberian crab
apple trees with this LIQUID; the fruit
of the trees had been seriously injured
! whenever they had borne in previous
years, yet q careful search made onsthe
18th OF the following August failed to
discover q single injured apple al
though the fruit on other trees only a
rev yards of, but not treated with this
E liquid, were very much infested with
I the worms, one-fonrth to 4oneShalf be-
ing wormy. TO ascertain whether the
fruit had retained any of tho poison, he
cut OF pieces from some that grew in
places that had been SPRAYED so much
as to destroy the foliage, and sent them
TO a chemist; the latter could find no
traces OF the poison, it having been APP
pied so early in the season that. the
: rams had washed it all off before the
fruit matured. A safer plan is to place
round the trunk of the infested trees
pandages OF paper, beneath which
Jnany OF the worms viii crawl and spin
their cocoons. For this purpose, com
mon straw wrapping paper may be used;
. " IS usually sold in sheets 18x2O inches.
and each sheet folded thrice upon, itself
gives eight layers, between two and
three inches wide, and long enough to
reach around most ordinary trees.
Pass one Of these around the Trunk of
each infested tree and fasten with a
tack. This should be done about the
first week in june; about two weeks
afterward they should be carefully re-
moved, and the larve and pupm found
beneathlthem DESTROYED, and, as the
larvae are sometimes hidden within the
folds of the bandages, some method
must be adopted that will destroy these.
AS the bandages are SO cheap, they
may be burned and replaced with new
ones; 9or quantity of them may be col
lected in q basket and taken to some
convenient place and be run through a
ciothes-wringer, and then be replaced
upon the trees. The great drawback
tothn method is that the worms are
not destroyed until they have done all
the damage they are capable of doing.
Although much safer in its application
'thaR Rr0k Cocks method, il e, not near
so effectives since che latter Aotr otlly
dsatepys the worms before thew hive
had time to injure the fruit vSry much |
but also destroys the canker-1 6rms md |
other leaf-eating inseets.-.Dl W Do
Q'tslteAe. IN Gern1d,atotJn Z agqraph.
Concentrated Feeding Stufs.
More thaa thirty yeers ago ii wasre |
lated OF q prufninent farmer who had |
been experimentine with mineral ier-
tlhzers prepared under Liebie's the6ry
81 mineral fertilizing that the tine |