Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-20

worms.
The fourth week in July got SO
worms.
The first week in August got II /
worms.
The second week in August l got
80 worms.
The third week in AUGUST got
/ 10 worms.
The fourth week In August l got
Al worms.
The first week in September got
ga worms.
The greatest number of worms
that went under the bands in. one
night was on the night of July 9,
when 80 went under. From the
time worm goes under the bands
until it's offspring goes into another
apple is 81 days.
l have been experimenting with
sticky fly paper to be used in the
place of cloth for the bands. These
experiments have proved very salts
factory as l caught as many as fifty
worms in one night on badly in
! fected tree. If the mixture that is
placed on the paper could be bought
by the gallon and applied directly
to the trees, all the worms could be
prevented from finding hiding
: place and, also, ants could be pre-
| vented from coming up the tree, as
neither one can cross the sticky fly
! paper.
} If the sticky fly paper is placed
) around the tree with the sticky side
out and tied at the top it will catch
: all the worms that come down the
5 limb for one week, and the birds
will clean all the worms off the
t paper each day.. If the sticky side
S is left in and left open at the top
[ like a funnel, it will catch all the
worms for two weeks but, the birds
a will pick through it to get the
worms, and so destroy it.
d AS acts fight the natural enemy
= of the aphis, the catching of ants
= means the. destruction of great
c portion of the aphis by means of
Il their natural enemy.
l think that this will prove the
greatest means of cradicating the
. codinlg moth yet known. For If all
" the first brood of worms are caught
= there would be none, or few, lett
from which the second brood could
% start. The only worms that escape
# are those that drop III wormy apples
- and not all apples that fall to The
~ ground are wormy. In observing
" this point during the past season,
. found only one apple with worn
"a in it out of the 200 fallen worm,
~ apples that l examiedn.
&c These exper iments led TO the dis
- covery that the manufactured articl
n known as the true tanglefoot, which
90 is much the same as the sticky par
~ of the sticky fly paper. 1t come
-, put GO in J., a, 10 and 25-pount
70 cans at the cost of about 20 cents
~ pound This would not make /
cost much over five cents tree b
,o getting it in large quantities.
, is applied to the trunk or limb c
a. the tree with paddle and can b
or put on almost as quickly as ban
AZ could. 1t will catch all the worm
months. 1t is also recommended fc
4v ants, Egyptian moths and canke
ds worms. The California and Mass
~ Massachusetts, exper iment ste
he tions have both used it and say thu
II. it is not injurious to the tree.
:, this were used on the tree it woul
~, do away effectually with any LAT
ne sprayings for cooling moth.
Of In spraying for codling moth
n find it most satisfactory to use
a power spray with pressure {
ne from los to 200 pounds. One ougl
ne to have at least SO feet of hose f.
,s each rod. These rods SHOULD be te
IN feet long, ending in half circl
he to which are fastened two Bordeat
no MOBILES. These MOBILES are so a
49,. anged by use of elbows that or
IA J.. sprays down on the tree and II
"a other up into teh tree. This do
of away with the tower advised
In many fruit growers. have four
IN the arsenate of lead to be the mo
,as satisfactory spray to use, not on
because of its lasting qualities
it remains on the leaves until tn
- drop, but also, because, though Il
' tree be sprayed until the spray dri
r off, there is no danger of burnil
the foliage. In many cases whe
the arsenate of soda was used ha
20 seen the foliage and apples We
badly burned from it.