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C. A. Hawley was sure that buckwheat is effectual against the codlin 

 moth. He did not know at just what stage of growth he had plowed it 

 under, but keeps it about and thinks its mere growth in the orchard 

 sufficient. 



Walter Phillips: Its potency is due to gases generated by decom- 

 position of the bloom. 



Mr. Chapman of Bangor said there are several cut-worms which prey 

 upon vegetation, and asked which one was meant; and was told, the 

 grayish worm which attacks vegetables, not the black one which eats 

 grass. 



C. A. Hawley told how, some years ago, he and J. L. Hopkins of South 

 Haven set 4,000 peach trees near Shelby,- but saved only 1,000. They tied 

 cotton-batting about them, but it hardened after a rain and the worms 

 crawled over it. Mr. Hopkins said he was told at the time that there were 

 no cut-worms in Shelby, yet they destroyed 150,000 trees for him in one 

 place and 30,000 in another. " I don't know if there have been any since 

 — I have not been here since." Mr. Adams said they had not troubled 

 seriously since that year — 1881; and no. little merriment was made over 

 the presumption that Mr. Hopkins and cut-worms travel in company. 



N. W. Lewis: A neighbor has successfully combatted cut- worms by 

 strewing clover poisoned with Paris green. 



Mr. Lannin, saying cut-worms are partial to clover, asked Mr. Hawley 

 what was on the land, the year before, where the peach trees were killed; 

 and was told that clover had been there two years, but the worms were no 

 worse in that field than elsewhere, and were not so bad in the lower ground 

 where there was clover also. 



A. Hamilton: Clean culture is not a remedy; for when cut-worms can 

 find nothing else they will destroy even trees three or four years old. Mr. 

 Hopkins had known them to attack trees eight or nine years old. 



Mr. Pettinger: These cut-worms may be found in the woods, but not 

 in new land because the burning kills them. There were divers opinions 

 expressed as to clay and sand lands being equally subject to cut-worms' 

 ravages, enough for all streniious needs, at least, being certified as inhabit- 

 ing both. 



Walter Phillips recommended spraying grapes with Paris green or 

 London purple, for the rose chafer, saying there is no danger, as the 

 poison will be washed off by the rain before the fruit ripens. 



Mr. Lannin : A quantity sufficient to kill rose chafers will destroy the 

 grapes. 



Mr. Phillips: Yet I sprayed, killed the rose chafers, and got a crop. 



QUESTIONS in VARIETY. 



Turning from this to the question-box, its contents were disposed of in 

 this order: 



1. Shall we ciiUivafe as thoroughly and as late as usual in peach 

 orchards that are not in bearing this season f 



Mr. Merritt: I should say, that depends. If trees are as thrifty 

 as usual, yes; but cultivation is not as necessary when there is no crop. 

 To this Mr. Beebe agreed. Mr. Hamilton: Much depends uj)on the age 

 of the trees. I would cultivate young trees as thoroughly but not as late. 



