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Upon Floriculture Mrs. B. F. Peterson, from Carthage Floral 

 Guild, made an able and valuable report upon the condition and man- 

 agement of plants. 



Upon Entomology Mr. C. W. Ames reports a threatening of 

 chintz bugs in some localities, but possibly too late to do serious 

 damage. 



Mr. A. C. Hammond — I have checked the ravages of curculio 

 on a portion of my orchard by spraying with London Purple, thereby 

 saving some fruit. 



On Vegetables C. B. Rockwell reported : The yield of early 

 potatoes has been 25 to 40 bushels per acre. Owing to cut-worms it 

 was diflBcult to get a stand of early cabbages, what did grow are very 

 fair. Late cabbages are a failure. The excessive drouth and hot 

 winds have been too much for the tomato. Much of the bloom was 

 blasted, and much of the fruit has been sunburned. Lima beans are 

 much injured from the same causes. In fact the drouth and heat 

 have been too great for our vegetable gardens. 



On Orchards Mr. T. F. Leeper said he had nothing favorable to 

 report. For 1887 our fruit crop is a failure, and our barren wrecks 

 of orchards give little evidence of past greatness. Our dead and 

 dying trees are a sight that is truly discouraging. I shall not prune 

 as heretofore, and shall be very careful in the future as to location 

 of orchard sites. 



Question — Do you favor a wet location? Answer : I do not. 



Mr. Sherwood — I attribute the loss of trees, primarily, to sun 

 scalds. 



Mr. A. C. Hammond — Our trees die from overbearing and for 

 want of fertilizing. Heretofore we raised abundant crops. 



Mr. C. W. Ames — I disagree as to the cause of the loss of 

 trees. We have been losing trees annually for a number of years, 

 ever since the winter of the deep snow that fell when we had no frost 

 in the ground. This was, I think, the beginning of the end. Our 

 peach trees have not died from over-cropping, as we have not grown 

 the fruit for a number of years. 



Mr. R. W. McMahan — Our severe winters are the destruction 

 of our orchards, and severe winters have been the rule for a number 



