The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-08-09
The MOTH AND
THE APPLES
Crop in Wayne County to
be Very Light
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COD
LING MOTH DESCRIBED BY
MIR. BULLOCK.

w. H. Bullock, Honesdale, state
horticultural inspector, whose field
of operations covers Wayne, Pike and
Monroe counties, called at The Citi-
zen office Friday afternoon, with a
live specimen of the "codling moth
that causes so much trouble here
abouts, and is responsible for our
wormy apples.
The brown-eyed, fiy-by-night mon
ster was safely Gagged in a tube used
for testing lime and sulphur solu-
ton.
He was on the limb of a tree"
said Mr.. Bullock, and 1 put the
tube right over him so that he
couldn't fly. l have tube with
cynaide of potassium in it that will
kill them, but l wanted to catch this
one alive.
You don't see but very few of
these. They fly nights. l found this
one resting on an apple tree. They
attack pears and apples, and some
times ounces.
We are safe in saying that IS
per cent. of our apples are wormy
on account of this insect, and yet
that can be controlled easily by prop
er spraying. Lewis Brothers, down
near lIISIOl, nave Ut6u luS
four years. Last Fall they offered
wormy apple they could find. You
can't do it the first year, but you
reduce them a good deal.
We've always had them ever
since l could remember. We didn't
do anything about them until very
lately The remedy is arsenate of
lead. You can buy the arsenate of
lead. Use two pounds to one gallon
of water or spraying material. You
| can use Bordeaux mixture in COM
bination with it. Arsenate of lead is
an iHsecticide, and at this time we
can use fungicide, and combine the
two. Then we can check fungus dis
eases and at the same time destroy
the codling moth larvae.
" The apple crop will be very light
indeed in Wayne county this year.
1t will be light all over Wayne, Pike,
and Monroe, but better than here in
Wayne. There are no apples scarce
ly in Wayne county. No. l don't
blame the codling moth for it.
1.-The general impression is, that
the hot weather is the cause of it.
The sun came out hot when the trees
were in bloom. The blossoms turned
brown in day or two and fell off
The apples didn't set; didn't form.
"The curculio is another bad
pest. They destroy half of our
plums. They lay an egg there, and
the little egg matches and eats into
the stone in the centre of the fruit,
and that causes the fruit to be
wormy.
| &, Tl,o ouro,,1;o, ood 1ho ood1;r ~
moth seem to be the worst pests we
cuho stings the stone fruits, the
call it the plum curculio.' It's get
ting more in other fruit. I find it in
apples this year. / think they are
getting worse every year.
These are the two worst insect
pests. We don't have much San
Jose scale in Wayne county.
The mite is another bad pest.
A mite is very small insect that
gets into the leaf. The leaf turns
yellow. Half of the leaves in many
People think tree is dying but it's
it without a compound magnifying
glass. l have never seen one.
al think there will be some early
Fall apples at the Wayne county fair.
This isn't an apple year. Every 9th
er year they claim is an apple year.
The Baldwin seems inclined to bear
every other year. 1t is claimed that
we have to cultivate our orchards,
spray the trees, and thin out the
fruit, in order to have crop every
s,,r 1nf1
frost or something we couldn't con-
troll
It's getting worse all the time.
Men are seeing that they can't grow
fruit without spraying or cultivating,
They have to do something. The
trees are turning yellow and dying
rrbav'ra Sinly