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Prof. Bndd — Lust Sprin^i: tlu' strawberry worm was becoming? 

 troublesome <»u the college farm, and [ sent a man to s])rinkle the 

 strawberry beds with arsenic solution, not thinking about the berries 

 being so nearly ripe. The application was very effectual in destroy- 

 ing the worms. Three days after I found some children gathering 

 and eating strawl)erries from one of the ])atches which had been 

 sprinkled, which frightened me not a little, but no harm came of it. 



Mr. Gribbs — How often should ap])le trees be sprinkled to secure 

 the best results V 



Prof. Budd — One or two applications of the arsenic solution is 

 generally sufficient. Mr. Dixon did not sjjrinkle his trees last s])ring: 

 the poison had done its work so thoroughly the previous year that he 

 did not think it necessary. I had a barrel of Jonathans from his orchard 

 and did not tind a single worm in them. As to the .sheep — the cod- 

 ling moth often leaves the apple before it falls to the ground, and of 

 course, in that case escapes injury from the sheep. Mr. Dixon recom- 

 mends pasturing with shee]> not so much for ^-rotection against the 

 codling moth as to get rid of another insect, which purpose is prin- 

 cipally effected by the tramping of the ground by the sheep. 



G. B. Roots — When I pasture my orchard with hogs I have very 

 few worms: when I do not, they increase ra])idly. 



Prof. Burrill— About codling moths; they will certainly travel 

 a mile or more, and orchards near towns will be more or 

 less infested by moths coming from fruit kept in town. T cannot see 

 how the pasturing with sheep, as in the case mentioned here, can 

 prevent the moths crassing the hedge. 



Mr. Fred. Hayden submitted tlic following 



REPORT OF AD-INTERlM COMMITTEE FOR SOUTHERN 



ILLINOIS. 



Gentlemen of fJ/f Tn/)iols Horticuliin-dl Socicfy: 



Having been al)sent from the State, or so entirely occupied with 

 other business as to nuike it im])0ssible for me to do the duty wiiich 

 devolved upon me as one of the Ad-Interim (^ommittee for Southern 

 Illinois. 1 have called to my aid Mr. Tt. W. Endicott and ^\y. Harry 

 Wallace, of Villa I^iflge. who have kindly collected such infonuatioji 

 as was possible in a short time, and 1 give it to you in the following 

 notes, beginning with ap})les: 



