Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Natural History and Habits of the Codling Moth, or Apple Worm: Also, Notes on the Scale Insect
We respectfully ask of the fruit growers a careful read ing, and any information sent us concerning this pest or the scale insect will be thankfully received and preserved for publication.
We are directly interested, in common with the fruit growers, in the extermination of this pest, our business depending especially on their success as producers of choice marketable fruit. It is our purpose to publish, from time to time, such information as we are able to collect, until the natural history and habits of these pests are fully understood, and also such experiments, made by those interested in their destruction, as we know to be reliable. Respectfully.
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