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point, but happening to have been with this society, at least, at one 

 of their meetings, and knowing their history, their progress, and 

 their complete success, I wish you would especially bear in mind 

 the instructions and advice given in that paper, and if it comes in 

 your way in your homes or in your communities to put those things 

 in practice, treasure them carefully. They are valuable words. 1 

 believe it is within the province of every thinking man and woman 

 to unite themselves in every community into a local horticultural 

 society that shall carry out this work and disseminate these beauti- 

 ful and interesting and profitable truths, that we get here at these 

 meetings. 



Mr. Kellogg — I would like to know the best method of catch- 

 ing the codling moth, if there is any practical method. 



Mr. Olds — My experience goes to show that pasturing an or- 

 chard is the best remedy where it can be done. Pasture the orchard 

 with sheep or pigs in the early part of the season, so that all the 

 early wormy apples are destroyed. Then you will not have trouble 

 with the main crop. 



Mr. Chipman — I want to give my experience in pasturing or- 

 chards. I had heard so much about this being a great benefit. I 

 had a large hog field connected with the orchard, and if it would 

 benefit the orchard I thought I would turn them in and fence them 

 in. They ate the apples and lay around the trees. They ate the 

 corn finally, but before they ate the corn they killed the last tree in 

 the orchard. They lay around the trees and, I suppose, tramped 

 them to death. The trees all died. The trees were from five to 

 twenty years old, and some of them twenty and twenty-eight 

 inches through. Every tree in the orchard died, and I could find 

 no other reason, only the hogs walking and eating the corn and get- 

 ting in the shade packed the earth pretty solid, and the next spring 

 there was but one tree that leaved out any, and that shed its leaves 

 within a month. 



Mr. Phillips — I had twenty hogs last fall and set apart five acres 

 for hogs. I set rings in the hogs' noses. There was some old straw 

 in the corner for them to lie on. They behaved as well as Jersey 

 cows all summer. They did not hurt a tree in my orchard that I 

 know of. There were some four or five hundred trees. I am going 

 to turn them in next summer. So there are two sides to this ques- 



