NOTES on THE APPLE-WORM.—Mr. J. Savage, of Lawrence, Kan., in a recent number of Colman’ s Rural World remarks upon the freedom of Michigan apples from the work of the apple-worm (Carpocapsa pomonella). This same freedom was generally noticed in 1878, not only in Michigan but in many parts of New York, and it doubtless obtained elsewhere. It will be well for us to endeavor to arrive at the reasons. To my mind the following, first stated by me in the New York Tribune, may very properly be urged:1st. The very general failure of the apple crop in 1877, as exemplified in the reports for that year, will we find both in the Proceedings of the Michigan Pomological Society and in those of the American Pomological Society. This failure

524
was in many localities so nearly total that scarcely any apples were grown, and it follows, as a consequence, that very few codling moths were produced to perpetuate the species the following year. A second reason, so far as Michigan is concerned, may be found in the fact that in no State in the Union have more intelligent and persevering efforts been made to prevent its ravages. 

Through the columns of the agricultural and horticultural journals as well as in the pages of their pomological transactions, the simple methods of fighting this pest that have been reported and recommended in the Missouri reports have been persistently kept before the people, while Prof. Beal, of the Agricultural College, has, perhaps, done more good than any one else by showing that it cost him no more than four cents per tree to keep the bands around the trunks, changing them every nine days in the warm months, from the first appearance of the worms until the end of August, in an orchard of two hundred and fifty trees. I agree with him when he asserts that “if a man will not take the trouble to keep his fruit from the worms, he deserves to eat wormy apples.” 
Missouri apple growers should take courage from these facts. Since my connection with the Department of Agriculture there have been sent to me four different kinds of patent bandages to be used as traps for this apple-worm, but I can find no advantage in any of them over the simple paper bandages first recommended by me in 1872, and since very generally employed.
 —Prof. C. V. Riley before the Mo. State Hort. Soc., 1879.