Suuiiner Meeting. ^5 



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Von Schrenk. — Yes, of course, we could do that thing. But we are 

 going- to be a httle slow about doing a thing of that kind. I would like 

 to see that very thing tried. But I am not going to advise anyone to 

 try it and then get into trouble and have him come on to me about it. 



Dr. Green. — I would like to tell you of a little experiment. I was 

 going to soak some apples in the Bordeaux mixture, baptize them in it, 

 and then cover them with soap suds. I got a box and a friend of mine 

 and myself selected 20 apples which were perfectly sound, took our micro- 

 scopes to see that there was no bitter rot on them. We washed them 

 perfectly clean with water. We then put them in the Bordeaux mixt- 

 ure and left them there ten minutes. \\'e did all this in my cellar where 

 there were no other apples. After we took them out of the mixture, we 

 soaked them in soap suds. We then put them away in one end of the 

 box and those that we had done nothing to in the other end and they all 

 rotted alike. \\& had the Ben Davis and Winesap. 



Question : How long did you keep them ? 



Dr. Green. — I kept them mitil sometime this spring. 



Oh, well, it was their natural time to rot. 



Question by a member : How about freezing apples to ship them ? 



C. AA\ A\^ilmeroth. — We have tried that. Take an apple that is al- 

 ready effected with rot and freeze it there was no signs that the rot had 

 grown 1-16 of an inch. Of course that will stop it. Ice cars might do, 

 as 34 degrees will stop it. 



Judge INIiller. — Apples can be frozen as hard as a bone and then put 

 in a cellar and thawed out and come out all right. This is an import- 

 ant question. 



Mr. Waters of Canton. — We are going to hold Farmers' Institutes 

 in every county in this State this fall and I would like to meet and talk 

 with some one from each county. I have seen a great many from a 

 great many counties, but there are a few that I would like to meet yet. 



EXPERIENCE WITH CANKER WOR^I. 



(By G. P. Turner, Aleadville. Mo.) 



The canker worm in this section has become an established fact, 

 and unless spraying or other means be resorted to, or some unforeseen 

 agency come to our help, the years of profitable apple growing are few. 

 This pest first appeared here in the spring of 1896 in a 40-acre orchard 

 adjoining the town of Meadville. No doubt the insect had been increas- 



