. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. February, ipso BETTER FRUIT Page 5 patches or winding burrows here and there in the flesh of the apple, and several larvae in a fruit usually will reduce the pulp to a slimy brownish mass. The insect is more or less prevalent throughout the northeastern stales. It prefers sweet and subacid varieties. Some experimenters have found that if the foliage and fruit are kept covered with a poison, such as arsenate of lead, during early July,the flies are destroyed before egg laying begins to any ex- tent. Experience with this insect in Canada is to the effect that spray
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. February, ipso BETTER FRUIT Page 5 patches or winding burrows here and there in the flesh of the apple, and several larvae in a fruit usually will reduce the pulp to a slimy brownish mass. The insect is more or less prevalent throughout the northeastern stales. It prefers sweet and subacid varieties. Some experimenters have found that if the foliage and fruit are kept covered with a poison, such as arsenate of lead, during early July,the flies are destroyed before egg laying begins to any ex- tent. Experience with this insect in Canada is to the effect that sprays regularly applied for the control of the codling moth and other in- sects will also control the apple maggot. In the home orchard and elsewhere care should be taken to gather up promptly and destroy wormy, fallen fruit. Apple red bugsâT\ie sucking insects known as apple red bugs came into prominence re- cently in New York state, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. They puncture the little fruits early in the season, causing them to fall or become pitted and deformed. Best control comes from the use of 40 per cent nicotine sulphate, 1 pint to 100 gallons of spray, added to the first scab treatment before the blossoms open. It may also be necessary to add the nicotine sulphate to the first codling-moth treatment after the falling of the petals. Bud mothâThe caterpillars of the bud moth attack the opening buds of the apple in the spring, and it is particularly destructive throughout the northern United States, extend- ing west to the Pacific coast. The dark brown caterpillars hibernate about half grown in little cases around the buds, and as the little leaves expand in the spring these are folded together by threads of silk and the caterpillars feed within the folded leaves. Injured leaves often turn brown, and if the caterpillars are abundant their work is quite conspicuous. Dur- ing late summer the young larvse of the new brood eat small holes in the apples, causing important blemi
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