American homes and gardens . crop while those which were carefully treatedlost but per cent. Where care was used, as a test, theloss was only 16 per cent. Another method was resorted to, extremely laborious buteffective, by digging trenches at the base of the trees and building around the trunk a steep incline which the cater-pillar can not surmount. After this was done the trees areviolently shaken when thousands of the insects fall to theground and then, instinctively start to reascend the trunkbut are arrested in the trench where they are destroyed inuntold thousands by pounding with w
American homes and gardens . crop while those which were carefully treatedlost but per cent. Where care was used, as a test, theloss was only 16 per cent. Another method was resorted to, extremely laborious buteffective, by digging trenches at the base of the trees and building around the trunk a steep incline which the cater-pillar can not surmount. After this was done the trees areviolently shaken when thousands of the insects fall to theground and then, instinctively start to reascend the trunkbut are arrested in the trench where they are destroyed inuntold thousands by pounding with wooden stamps. The ravages of the new pest includes the defoliation ofthe trees as well as the destruction of the fruit and beginsjust as quickly as the caterpillar emerges from the egg. Thefruit is first attacked and consists in biting into the skinand eating a portion both of the covering and the substance ofthe apple as long as it lives. Sometimes the whole apple isdevoured. The fruit is attacked until the skin gets tough.
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