The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-08-08
APPLE GROWERS
SHOULD use
TREE BANDS
By e p. Taylor. in The Intermountain


As the season advances and occa-
sional worms are found beneath the
skin at the sides of the apples and
few already burrowed inward TO
the core, the urgency OF working
bands to capture and destroy as many
worms as possible is impressed upon
us
There was a time when bands were
worked quite generally and success
fully. Following that period condi-
tions prevailed which made spraying
sufficient to control the worms with
out resorting to banding. The in
creased worminess of our fruit dur
ing the past two years makes 1t nov
seem highly advisable to return for
this season, to the banding process
in conjunction with spraying.
BY working bands is meant the
placing Of bands of burlap or othcr
cloth about the trunk OF the trees u
serve as hiding places for the worms
as they leave the worm eaten fruit
upon the tree and crawl down the
tree trunk. These bands are gone
over every ten days through the sum-
mer and the worms that have col
lected in the folds of the bands end
in the rough places of the bark under
the bands are destroyed by hand.
These bands may be cut from old
gunny sacks or from burlap used as
wrapping for furniture. etc. The bur-
lap should be cut In strips about ten
inches wide and long enough to reach
about the tree tapping over few
inches at the ends. In placing the
band upon the tree fold 1t once.
making the cloth two thicknesses
about the tree wrapping the band
with the fold uppermost and the loose
edges downward. Fasten the ends
by means OF a small nail driven into
the tree-trunk After driving. the nail
head should be cut of with pair Uf
stroying the worms in the bands use
a pocket knife being careful to miss
none either in cocoons on the bark o.
in the folds OF the band. II will take
about a minute to the band to destroy
the worms. not destroy the lace
wing or syrphus fly larvae or pupae
which will be found in the bands as
these prey upon aphlds.
Proper management of codling
moth bands will result In the capture
OF at least 40 per cent OF the frat
brood worms which mature in the ap-
pies according to the Ohio Expert
ment Station. This is a great step
toward protecting the fruit from late
worms
A few worms we're Matching from
eggs and entering apples as early ~
May 20 this year. Upon an average,
about 20 days are spent by the worm
in the apple so 1t will be seen that
very few scattering larvae might &c
caught in bands In the warmer parts
Of the country as early as June 10. Il
would therefore seem advisable TO
place the bands upon the trees not
later than June 10 or Is. They should
be gone over and the worms destroy
ed every 10 days to the last Of An
gust after which date the worms will,
for the most part remain in the
bands without changing to chrysalids
until the following spring. The bands
will therefore have to be gone over
about seven or eight times through
the summer II will not be safe 10
allow the bands to go much more
than ten days for fear the worms will
have passed through the chrysalic
stage and escape as moths.
nippers and the outer end OF the nail
bent upward at an angle OF 80 de-
grees. The band should be. drawn