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you find that a tree is not the variety you desire it to be, top graft it at 

 once. Every fruitgrower should learn the art of grafting and do his own 

 work. 



If the directions given in this j)aper are followed, and the trees which 

 you plant are fresh and sound, there will be but small loss and a valuable 

 orchard will be your reward. The tent caterpillar and codlin moth and 

 every insect enemy should be guarded against and destroyed. The best 

 method for doing this can be learned by attending such meetings as this. 

 Here you will learn the best varieties to grow, the best methods for pack- 

 ing and shipping, in fact, you will learn to become the best kind of fruit- 

 grower and a good fellow. 



Mr. Phillips: Did you not make a mistake when you said to wash the 

 trees each year with strong lye and soapsuds? 



Mr. La Fleur: No, sir; I do not care how strong it may be. 



Mr. Lannin: Why cut off the limbs of young trees in the spring? 



Mr. La Fleur : Because I do not think it weakens them as much as cut- 

 ting in the fall. I prefer fall planting because the young trees thereby 

 get an earlier start. 



Thursday morning was occupied, the session being a very short one, with 

 the asking and answering of a few questions. 



1. How ccm pear trees he protected from the slug? 



Mr. Hawley: By dusting air-slaked lime upon them while wet. 



Mr. Lannin : Any day will do, for the mucous coat of the slug takes on 

 the lime and the slug is killed by it. Any other dust is as effectual — even 

 road dust. 



2. In jarring trees for curcuUo, do we knock off good peaches? 



Mr. Sessions: No; none will drop that are likely to grow. 



5. Does the sting of the curcnlio upon the plum, while very small, always 

 kill it? 



Mr. Lannin: Certainly. 



Mr. Hopkins: Mr. Bryant of South Haven jars early and then again 

 in August when the second brood is at work. 



Mr. Adams : Many plums are stung which are still all right and show 

 no sign of injury. Not all the eggs hatch. 



Mr. Lannin: What do you do with the plums and peaches which fall? 



Mr. Adams: Nothing; but I suppose we should pick up and destroy 

 them. 



Mr. Lannin: This should be done to destroy the larvae. 



It was decided to hold the next annual meeting in Hartford. 



After adoption of the following reports the meeting adjourned. 



report on fruits. 



Your committee found the following fruits on exhibition during the various sessions 

 of this meeting: 



Apples — Seventeen varieties, correctly named and in a very good state of preservation, 

 by W. B. Andruss of Allegan, comprising the following list: King, Fallawater, Ostend 

 Greening, American Beauty, Stark, Cooper's Market, Golden Russet, Ben Davis, Red 

 Canada, Northern Spy, Smith's Cider, Jonathan, Wagener, Danver's Sweet, Rubicon, 

 Wells, Baldwin. 



Strawberries — Plate of Jessie, box of Moore's Prolific, by J. W. Humphrey, South 



