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and forms a little cocoon, and in a few days comes out just as in the 

 spring. There are sometimes three crops in a season. The last crop 

 stays here in the winter ; some of them are in the apple. They hide 

 in the cellar, apple barrels, under the bark of the tree, and in almost 

 every conceivable place. It is not known whether the moth feeds or 

 not when in the perfect state. 



The cocoon is a little more than one-half an inch in length and of 

 a dull gray color. It is not entirely nocturnal ; it may fly in the day- 

 time. 



J. C. Evans — We have caught a peck of them in one day with 

 sweetened water, near our apple-packing shed. 



Mr. Murray — Will not traps catch our friends as well as our foes f 



Prof. Whitten — Just as many friends as foes. I think the cod- 

 ling moth exists only a few days. 



I would like to have samples of injurious insects from all parts of 

 the State. 



Mr. Neff — I bought a barrel of soured sorghum and used it for 

 bait. The first night I caught oOO codling moths. That season there 

 was not one apple in 400 that was wormy. The next year it did well. 

 I hung a can of the sorghum in every fourth apple-tree. Since then I 

 have failed. I could get no sorghum as good for the purpose as the 

 first barrel. As far as my 300 chickens run the apples were good ; 

 the plums, also, were good ; so I have come to the conclusion that 

 the best thing I can do is to increase my flock of chickens. 



Mr. Baxter — You ought to have a law to prevent spraying trees 

 or plants when in bloom. It will kill the bees and they are our best 

 friends. 



Mr. Goodrich — In plum-growing we have many insects to fight.^ 

 Spraying does no good. All varieties of plums bloomed, and I sprayed 

 till I injured my trees, and I don't know that I killed an insect. It i& 

 just as easy to grow plums as corn or potatoes, if you will keep the 

 curculio down. 



Mr. Goodman— Does not spraying keep the insects away ? 



Mr. Goodrich — I don't think it makes any difference, though the 

 curculio does feed, in a measure, upon the green foliage. 



Mr. Baxter — We have been successful with the peach and plum^ 

 London purple, combined with the Bordeaux mixture, generally doe» 

 the work. 



Mr. Baldwin, Kansas — Twenty-tive or thirty sprayed trees did no 

 good for two or three years. Lately I have used slaked lime, throw- 

 ing it over the foliage, and I have had perfect plums, of the Wild 

 Goose, Lombard, Weaver, Duane's Purple and Washington. 



