Summer Meeting. 85 



Mr. Cliubbuck. — What do you mean by half a crop? 



Some member. — Any one can answer that, about 50 per cent. I 



would say. 



Mr. Chubbuck. — How many bushels? 



Member. — That depends on the size of your tree. 



Secretary. — If the tree would hold and ripen say 10 bushels and 

 from the appearance we should estimate there would not be more 

 than five bushels, we should call it 50 per cent. No tree should hold 

 more than a full crop, and this "full crop" should be our guide or 

 what we would call 100 per cent. Our estimates should always keep 

 this standard in mind. Per cent, of an "average crop" is an entirely 

 ' different thing. We might have 300 per cent, of an average crop, but 

 never of a "full crop." 



Prof. Stedman of Columbia, IMo. — Ladies and gentlemen : I will 

 try to be very brief. We have been talking so many years about 

 insects. This year we have in our midst an insect, that as a rule, 

 is not very common. It curls up the leaf and feasts upon it. This 

 season it has not only fastened itself to the leaves but has united 

 several leaves, and has been working on the fruit itself. They can be 

 found in the apple, cherry and plum. And as far as I know, no fruit 

 is exempt from them. They eat the seed and pulp and will eat it all. 

 These little insects are hard to find from the fact that they keep them- 

 selves rolled up in the leaf. But if we can reach tlijem with any poison- 

 ous spray, it will kill them. We can kill the most of them, but I 

 tell you, it will take time to do it. We want to instruct how to reach 

 them with a spray. I will give you some idea of what these insects are 

 doing. They have ruined some orchards entirely. In other orcliArds 

 they have done about 90 per cent, damage. I say some of our trees will 

 not have any fruit on them at all on account of this little insect. 



Another insect is the Curculio that works on the peach. These 

 little things can be detected now and can be for weeks to come. 

 They come from the peach. If you will cut the peach open you will 

 find inside the seed the little larva of this insect. Now we cannot 

 spray for them. The only way is to jar the trees when the insects are 

 laying their eggs and catch them on a sheet spread down for that 

 purpose and kill them. Now these are the two insects that are doing 

 the most harm for us this year. The Canker worm is with us always. 

 This insect is so easy to fight and is so common that I will not need 

 to say anything about that at all. No one need to be troubled with 

 them. 



Question b}^ Kiser. — Does this little insect that rolls up the leaves 

 actually eat them? 



