The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-04-01

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ling moth does it's work at night. If
this is true, it is easily seen that the
warm dry nights would be conducive
to it's propagation. However, on ac-
count of our superabundance of mois-
ture and cool nights on this side of
the mountains, l question whether 1t
will ever be a serious menace to our
orchards. Some seasons none are
detected. While you are investigat-
ing the codling moth, 1 would like
to know what are the latest conclu-
sions about the codling moth being
attracted by light. While at the Pan
American exposition in charge of the
fruit exhibit from the state of Wash
ington, l met Mr.. HaZeltine, the in
ventor of the cooling moth lantern. >
He claimed that while some of the
entomologists held that the codling
moth was not attracted to light,
others held that it was. AS he was
hear from you, as l always read your
articles with interest
ct strikes me that more repeated
effort should be made to teach the
hOrticulturist the Importance of pro-
tecting his friends, the song birds and
the quail. Any one who knows the
life round of the cooling moth must
see the value of these little birds.
never saw but one quail dressed.
judge that it's meal would not be
worth more than cents. While left
to roam the gardens and orchards it
would be worth at least $1.00 per an
mum as an insect eXterminator. We
have a band that comes to roost every
night in a grove near the house.
Early in the morning they are seen
flying back to our garden to pursue
the daily task of destroying insects
Touching this very interesting and
instructive letter from friend Ross
wish to say that l know of no entomo-
logist of the present day who claims
that the cooling moth will fly to a
light and l never did know one. 1t
is a notorious fact that many people
have thought they were catching the
codling moth when they were catching
other small moths about the size OF
the one they were after. | did that
myself and never knew any better
till took the larvae of the codling
moth from under the bands and
Matched them out in glass jars and
studied them, and then | learned to
my surprise that | had never known
the cooling moth. The codling moth
by nature is very shy insect, both
in the larval and fly stage. The
verbal needle in hay stack If
day time and the fly seeks a hiding
place during the day time where there
are thousands of those moths and
they are as hard to find as the pro-
verbal medic in a hay stack" If
any man thinks he can catch the cod
ling moths by having them fly to a
light let him try it and when he sue
ceeds let him send his moths" to the
entomologist at Pullman and he will
find out his mistake. What Mr.. Ross
says about the birds can not be too
strongly emphasized Birds and chick
ems may eat little fruit but they pay
for their board hundred times over.
The testimony now before us shows
that the cooling moth will never be
a serious pest in the Sound country.
Those uniformed persons who have
a fit of the Jim jams every time they
hear that some one has shipped a car
load of wormy apples to vinegar
factory in Seattle or Tacoma ought
to put a cabbage leaf on their heads
and take a good sleep.
My friend, l.. Ferdinand Floss, of
Latourell Falls, Oregon, writes me a
long letter to show that scientists, as
we'll as the writer, are all wrong on
the matter of the coloring of our
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