still more. At first, it is more or less difficult for the driver to ride astride of the logs and barrel but by balancing himself, by means of two short sticks, one in each hand, the difficulty is soon overcome. The logs and barrel may be used each morning to keep the sides of the furrow pulverized and smooth, in which condition the larvae cannot attain a foothold, and may be used frequently through the period of maximum migration to kill larvae in the ditch. On very light soil, such as is found occasionally in this section, as sandy bars, the ditches with post holes at every fourteen feet serve the purpose, but with post holes the ditches cannot be dragged and the post holes Dnheavy soils were found to be useless.
The northern portion of Erie County, Pa., contains approximately ten thousand acres of fruit orchards and vineyards. In this area the growing and marketing of sour cherries'is a considerable factor. Due to local conditions adjacent to Lake Erie, the usual pests affecting sour cherry, such as curculio, slug and leaf spot disease, are more or less destructive, varying considerably from year to year. In this Lake
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