Bulletin . A Wild Cherry Tree in The Leafy Month of June There is certainly no justice or reason for permitting a few ormany men in a community to shield and shelter insects that willsoon swarm over the grounds of neighbors, but as nothing less thanthe severe lash of the law will reach the stolidly indifferent in suchmatters, we are forced to submit and fight these enemies as theyinvade our gardens and orchards.—Andrew S. Fuller, 1893. THE TENT CATERPILLAR KY CLARENCE M. WEED. MONG the many insect pests of theGranite State none is more in evidenceduring spring and early summer than theTent Cat
Bulletin . A Wild Cherry Tree in The Leafy Month of June There is certainly no justice or reason for permitting a few ormany men in a community to shield and shelter insects that willsoon swarm over the grounds of neighbors, but as nothing less thanthe severe lash of the law will reach the stolidly indifferent in suchmatters, we are forced to submit and fight these enemies as theyinvade our gardens and orchards.—Andrew S. Fuller, 1893. THE TENT CATERPILLAR KY CLARENCE M. WEED. MONG the many insect pests of theGranite State none is more in evidenceduring spring and early summer than theTent Caterpillar,* which for more than acentury has ravaged the orchards of NewEngland. In 1790 Samuel Dean wrotefrom Portland, Mass. : The principalinconvenience the farmer meets with fromcaterpillars is the damage they do to hisorchard. A hairy kind of caterpillarsbuild their nests on apple trees in May,and are gone entirely in June. But theyfeed so industriously on the leaves as to destroy a great part ofthem if they be not timely prevented. As they are far lessmischievous than the canker-worm, so they are more Fifty years later Dr. T. W. Harris, of Cambridge, Mass.,wrote of the caterpillars that swarm in the unpruned nurser-ies and neglected orchards of the slovenly and improvidenthusbandman, and hang their many coated webs upon the wildcherry trees that are suffered to spring up unchecked by thewayside, and encroach upon the borders of pastures and fields.
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