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is here, and he can say if that was not the fact. They wanted to show 

 us a beautiful collection of fruit at one point, and I took one and 

 pulled it open and there were two worms, and several had crawled out. 

 I state this to show what may be the possible condition of things when 

 we furnish the conditions necessary for our insects. Hence j'ou must 

 have your curculio catcher. I have very carefully run my curculio 

 catcher to determine this point, and I have never found a curculio able 

 to rise when the thermometer was at 70'. I have only known of one 

 at 72°. They never fly under 75° of their own accord, but when the 

 sun is 75° they begin to fly freely. 



My own place has peach orchards north of it with wood land between. 

 I burnt over this intermediate space — that is, the ground it was supposed 

 the curculio might be in. I burnt it over in the month of May, so as 

 to burn up all the little rascals, but I did not succeed. If I caught all 

 my own curculios next day, when it blew from my place on to these, I 

 should get a solid quart of curculios. The}^ scented the plums on the 

 trees and came where they were. 



Now you will say it was impossible for me to get fruit next year ? 

 And why ? Along down the road near there are two rows, or one row 

 around a farm, of Morello Cherries. I asked a friend how many cherries 

 there were ? He said 40,000, and I said there were probably 20,000. 

 I said is there any one that contains the larvte of the curculio ? Not 

 one, he said. Now if they are to take the wind as it blows from my 

 place over there next year, what is the chance of their getting fruit ? 

 "Well," he said, "I think it is very little. " Now that is just the 

 condition my orchard is in, and which thousands of others are in, 

 in this State. Do not you think it necessary that something should 

 be done ? I don't know what. • I wish it was possible for us to have 

 some law by which we could reach them — that the legislature would 

 enable us to do as they have done with the Canada thistles — make 

 people do their duty. 



In going from Chicago to Galena we were surprised and de- 

 lighted — we felt we had got into the true fruit region of Illinois. 

 I there found the best exhibition of fruit since I was at the North- 



