. The American fruit culturist. akesmuch less poison to kill a small caterpillar than one nearlyfull-grown. Orchards which are well cultivated from year to j^ear arerarely seriously infested with canker-worms. Doubtless manyof the pupse in the soil are destroyed by the cultivation. As the female cannot fly, various expedients for preventingit from ascending the tree from the ground in the fall or earlyspring have been devised. Bands of sheath-ing-paper six or eight inches wide areoften tacked around the trunks of thetrees, and then smeared with tar, or anyother sticky substance which will not
. The American fruit culturist. akesmuch less poison to kill a small caterpillar than one nearlyfull-grown. Orchards which are well cultivated from year to j^ear arerarely seriously infested with canker-worms. Doubtless manyof the pupse in the soil are destroyed by the cultivation. As the female cannot fly, various expedients for preventingit from ascending the tree from the ground in the fall or earlyspring have been devised. Bands of sheath-ing-paper six or eight inches wide areoften tacked around the trunks of thetrees, and then smeared with tar, or anyother sticky substance which will not loseits viscidity. Before putting on the bandsj/ii^ ^ J . ir»^ smooth off the bark, so that there shall lH:^ .? ^ be no crevices under the paper through which the tiny moths may crawl. Another simple patented device, shownin Fig. 235, has been extensively and suc-cessfully used in Western New Common-Sense Wire Trap, when sense Wire Trap for . - ^ j ., . i m ^.i- Canker-worms. properly put on and cared for while the.
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