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curculio appeared in the Entomologist. When Dr. Walsh visited us 

 last year, through a mistake, he put me down as saying so, and he 

 applied the statement I made about the peach borer to the curculio. 

 I took him over the ground to show him that the hogs were a protec- 

 tion against the peach borer, but he put me down as saying so of the 

 curculio. 



Mr. Brown — I do not know that I can say anything about this 



matter particularly. There was one point I desired to have Dr. Hull 



speak about — and that was the damage to the apple crop, i^o one 



who has not tried it would have any idea of the amount of it. I got 



about 50 curculios and put them in a box with a glass top on it 



and put green plums, peaches and apples in with them. Some of them 



dug holes deep enough to bury themselves. Now with regard to the 



apple. I have never seen the larvte of the curculio in the apple or 



pear, but they do attempt to deposit their eggs in both of them. 



These marks produce a scar upon the fruit; they will nip out little 



patches of the skin. That this is done by the curculio I have no 



doubt. I have a number of Janet apple trees in one part of my orchard. 



In gathering the fruit I found they were all perfectly fair, without a 



single mark on any of them, until I came to a tree next to an old 



peach tree, and a large proportion of that fruit was marked so as to 



be almost worthless. Then I went to another where there were no 



peach trees and there the fruit was entii'ely fair. So that gentlemen 



will find that they must not only protect themselves against the 



curculio for their peaches and plums, but also for the sake of their 



apple trees. 



I will close by saying, that this whole matter is no great thing. It 

 is an easy matter to protect five or six hundred trees before break- 

 fast by using Dr. Hull's machine. 



Mr. Baldwin — I move to adjourn until nine o'clock to-morrow 

 morning, instead of half-past eight, so that we may see the fruit 

 on exhibition. 



Adjourned. 



