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Mr. Barry — I should think not, if the barrel was not opened. I took 

 up some that were at 8 degrees below zero, and they were entirely unin- 

 jured, lying on the ground. 



Mr. Daggy moved that Dr. Hull resume his report. Carried. 



Dr. Hull — I will take a track through our State to show the condi- 

 tions that operate upon horticulture. One of the difficulties I find at 

 Villa Ridge is the apple curculio, a new insect — a formidable insect — 

 which makes a small round puncture just under the skin^ and drops an 

 egg, and they are so small that I would not know from the examination 

 of a hundred apples, that the}' existed. As the little worm gnaws his 

 way out he simply perfects himself as a larva. In my own grounds I 

 have not put a sound Janet in my cellar. I did not get the Janet in 

 my cellar at all, because the}' will certainly not keep. My Janets are 

 not worth anything. Then further north we find this curculio again. 

 We find it in Michigan and in Missouri, and it seems pretty generally 

 disseminated. 



Mr. Nelson — Is that the one called the apple maggot of the East? 



Dr. Hull — No ; it is distinct from both the apple maggot and the 

 curculio. He looked to me like the plum curculio, but I found he had 

 too many humps on his back. After two runs of my catcher I did not 

 have siuy. I am satisfied that it is good-bye to apple culture unless we 

 have some instrument that will catch these insects. As it is, I think 

 the apple is going to be the most troublesome of any fruit, unless we 

 can control this matter. 



I want to show you something of the probable ratio of increase and 

 the probable necessary effort. I wish I could emphasize it so that there 

 would be never a thought directed to any other course. Now it is no 

 longer possible merely to plant and to reap. In connection with the 

 Missouri Ad Interim Committee, I visited some orchards this year ; 

 every peach was stung to the extent of 40 to 150 cuts. We then went 

 down to a point a few miles away where there were no peaches until 

 that year. We got there, and lo and behold every peach was wormy 

 and the most of them were on the ground and not sent to market. We 

 went from there to another, and found the same thing. Mr. Murtfeldt 



