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ful little beetles, our best friends. That is the way he rewarded 

 them for their services. 



Mr. Kellogg — I am glad to have this subject so well simplified 

 as we have to-day. I think it is the finest entomological talk we 

 have ever had. It brings the matter right before us in common 

 language. I wish you would describe the lady-bug as it is before 

 it gets to be a lady-bug, so we will not destroy it. As to the box 

 you speak of, will any little pasteboard box do to send specimens in? 



Dr. Hoy — The pasteboard box is not very good. They used to 

 make a kind of matchbox of wood which is good. The pasteboard 

 box is apt to get mashed up. A small tin box is good. 



Mr. Kellogg — I want to ask the best methods, or whether there 

 is any way to catch the codling moth by sweetened water of vine- 

 gar, or in any way. 



Dr. Hoy — A great many insects can be caught in large quanti- 

 ties by taking stale beer and sugar, and plastering it upon the side 

 of the tree; just after night if you go there, the tree will be per- 

 fectly covered with them, and you can destroy them; by killing 

 the parents you very frequently prevent the propagation of the in- 

 sects. 



Mr. Plumb — The greatest terror there is to the apple tree 

 planter, as a member of the assembly from Green county told me 

 last evening, is the canker worm. He said they were sweeping all 

 through the township where he lives. Said I, " Don't you know it 

 is easier to destroy them than it is the potato bug." No, he did 

 not know anything about it. Everywhere I go I find people who 

 are letting the canker work sweep over their orchards, destroying 

 thousands and tens of thousands of dollars worth of valuable prop- 

 erty, when they are much easier destroyed with Paris green or 

 arsenic than the potato bug is. One pound of arsenic which can 

 be bought for five cents, will poison eighty gallons of water, that 

 can be distributed with very little labor over an orchard. Two or 

 three cents worth of that poisoned water thrown from a force 

 pump will completely eradicate the canker worm, in its earliest 

 stages, from a tree able to bear eight or ten bushels of apples. It 

 is a practical remedy. It has been told here before, and yet peo- 

 ple do not know it. Now the question with me is, how far can we 

 go with these poisonous remedies. That is to me a subject of grave 



