46 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. W. W. Tracy: In cities, bones and garbage are burned in the coal 

 fires, making the ashes the more valuable. 



Is salt good as a fertilizer, or to retain moisture for the blackberry f 



Mr. Tracy: Salt afiPords no plant food; yet it seems to have some good 

 effects, but it is not known exactly how. Salt and plaster on clover have 

 been known to produce good results. 



Prof. Taft: If you have cheap, refuse salt, it is well to apply it;. 

 but, as for moisture, I would depend upon shallow cultivation rather than 

 upon salt. 



Mr. Daniel Strange: Would it not effect such chemical changes as to 

 make available more 'or less of the potash in the soil, which is not in con- 

 dition for assimilation by plants? 



Mr. Crozier thought not. 



Prof. Taft: Mr. Strange is right as to there being large quantities of 

 potash in the soil, unavailable for plants, but salt would be of little benefit 

 in liberating it. 



Mr. R. M. Kellogg: I have been told it is effectual against cutworms, 

 but have found it of no use in this respect. 



Mr. Hal-L: Will it not exterminate the grub from clover? I have found 

 it beneficial upon clover and potatoes in extermination of grubs or pre- 

 venting their attacks. I used it in the hill, keeping it away from the seed. 



Mr. Walker: I have had good results from the use of salt upon light 

 soils. 



Mr. Crozier : Is not the benefit more from the impurities in refuse salt 

 than from the salt itself? 



What are the best three varieties of red raspberry for market, coming 

 ahead of Cuthbert 9 



Mr. S. II . Fuller: Hansell is the best I can grow upon my heavy soil 

 with clay sub-soil. 



Mr. Kellogg: Crimson Beauty does well with me. It is pistillate and 

 must have other varieties near it. Hansell is not so vigorous as it should 

 be, save upon very heavy soil. But Hansell is the best early red berry I 

 ever grew. 



While neither Mr. Kellogg nor Mr. Fuller liked Marlboro, Mr. 

 Green said he gets double the amount of fruit from Marlboro as from 

 either Shaffer or Cuthbert. 



What is the best treatment for the apple-tree borer ? 

 Prof. Taft: If the borers are already in the tree, dig them out with 

 a pointed knife or wire. One preventive is cultivation, keeping the grass 



