. Country life reader . for thecocoons of the codling moth. No matter how well theymay be hidden under the bark, there are few of them that escape his sharp eyes. Hisbill is just suited for chisel-ling into the soft tongue is long and elas-tic, and the tip of it ishorny and is fitted withbarbs, so that if once hespears a cocoon the grubinside of it cannot downy woodpecker isone of the best friends ofthe farmer; but when thefarmers boy is armed witha gun or when the sports-man from town goes for adays shooting in the coun-try, the downy makes agood target, and it is an easy
. Country life reader . for thecocoons of the codling moth. No matter how well theymay be hidden under the bark, there are few of them that escape his sharp eyes. Hisbill is just suited for chisel-ling into the soft tongue is long and elas-tic, and the tip of it ishorny and is fitted withbarbs, so that if once hespears a cocoon the grubinside of it cannot downy woodpecker isone of the best friends ofthe farmer; but when thefarmers boy is armed witha gun or when the sports-man from town goes for adays shooting in the coun-try, the downy makes agood target, and it is an easy matter for the gunner toshoot away some hundreds of dollars with a single downy woodpecker is quite tame, and if you arecautious you can sometimes come quite close to him,close enough at least to see the scarlet crown patch andthe stiff tail-feathers with which he props himself againstthe tree when at work. A second means which the farmer can make use of toprevent the apples from becoming wormy is to spray the. The downy woodpecker. THE APPLE TREE 131 trees in the early spring with a poison called lead will kill the worms when they are first hatched fromthe eggs. The poison is sprayed on the trees by meansof a certain kind of pump. This spray should be firstused just after the blossoms fall, for it is then that theeggs hatch out and the worm begins to eat into the youngfruit that is just beginning to form. Three or four weekslater the spray is repeated, and in midsummer, when asecond brood of worms hatch out, it is again used in thesame way. The spraying, if properly done, never fails tokill the worms, and it is safe to say that the farmer whonot only sprays his trees but protects the downy wood-pecker will have a full crop of apples which do not haveto be thrown away because they are wormy. Besides the codHng moth, the apple tree has a good manyother enemies, which the farmer has to fight. The budsand leaves are attacked by caterpillars of various kinds.
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