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my age could enjoy life in that country pretty well. I was 

 going to say one thing in praise of this section of the coun- 

 try. Take Rock Island for a central point and go 150 

 miles in every direction or <J00 miles and there isn't a 

 place on the globe that will excell it for agricultural 

 purposes. 



Mr. Jeffery — I think it must be a very nice place in Cali- 

 fornia although I never lived there. I had a brother who 

 lived there 15 years and came back to Wisconsin and said 

 he could not stand it. He went to Kansas afterwards and 

 could not stand it there and now he has gone back to Cali- 

 ifornia; and another brother who has gone there says he 

 has had more enjoyment than he has ever had in 

 Wisconsin or in Kansas and it is a level country. Several 

 other parties who have since gone there all write back that 

 they are very much enamoured of the country. An- 

 other gentlemen sent back word before he had been there 

 three weeks to sell his farm here in Wisconsin. So I 

 think there must be something there not here in Wisconsin. 



The members now engaged in a discussion on the currant 

 worm. 



Mr. Stickney was called on. 



Mr. Stickney — I have used this year so far 75 pounds of 

 white hellebore and guess I have the currant worms where 

 they will stay this j^ear. There may be a second lot of 

 them that will come, but 1 guess not. That is on old ground 

 where the bushes are very high and very broad. I shall 

 make no more such bushes. I shall follow a system of prun- 

 ing that will keep my bushes less large and more open, 

 always apply my hellebore dry and have constructed one or 

 two devices to apply it to them, but I don't like them. I 

 have little boxes with fine holes in them and with thes e 

 you can put on as much as you wish. 1 have always us ed 

 the hellebore just as it comes to me, that is, pure. I hardly 

 ever have to use it a second time unless those who do the 

 work have overlooked the work. I found two or three 

 places this year that had been omitted. Then they l(g8n 

 to lose their foliage and then a stronger application fixed 



