174 3Iississippi Valley Horticultural Society. 



COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION. 



J. Sterling Morton and ex-Governor R. W. Furnas, of Nebraska ; 

 Oliver Gibbs, Jr., of Minnesota; Prof. Budd, Iowa; Col. Norman 

 J. Colman, Missouri; Geo. Y. Johnson, Kansas; Maj. S. H. Now- 

 lin, Arkansas ; Parker Earle and Robert Douglas, Illinois. 



Prof. _Bw?T?7/, of Illinois — If the committee will furnish me some 

 documents, I think I can get the influence of one congressman. 



Mr. Day, of Nebraska — I think one from our State will be in 

 our favor. 



3Ir. Grimes, of Colorado — This committee, working in connec- 

 tion with the one appointed by the forestry congress, will have 

 great influence. There are none feeling the need on this subject so 

 much as we in the West. Many of our mines are almost compelled 

 to shut down for want of timber. We also see the efifects in our 

 streams. 



Mr. Gibbs, of Minnesota — This report was drawn up hastily, and 

 one thing was omitted. I move that the Committee on Legislation 

 just appointed be authorized to operate with the one appointed by 

 the forestry congress. Adopted. 



The President — I hope also this committee will co operate with 

 the one on the New Orleans exhibition, and the Director General 

 may help this Committee. It may be reciprocal. 



Mr. Gibbs — I move that the President of the Iowa State Agri- 

 cultural College and the board of that institution be requested to 

 arrange so that Prof. Budd can meet with us. Adopted. 



CAUSE OF BLIGHT ON FRUIT TREES AND BLOSSOMS. 



BY GEORGE P. PEFFER, OF WISCONSIN. 



There has much been said and written by our eastern, a.s well as western, 

 fruit growers, on the subject of blight, about the cause or origin of the same, 

 on the pear as well as on the apple. 



Some have hold that it was the forcing of the sap upwards through the 

 stoniata in the tender sap cells of the young leaves on the new wood growth 

 of the new shoots ; others, by punctures caused by insects on same, and 

 some by cold or freezing and thawing, thereby destroying and rupturing the 

 cell structure of tho ciimhiuni layer by exp;insion : and some by the pressure 



