140 Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, 



Prof. Cook — I want to talk a moment, for I think I can 

 see a way for this society to do splendid work. There never 

 was a time before when my friend Garfield- was with me 

 that I was sorry. If our state society has ever done any- 

 thing for our state, it is due entirely to him; and it occurs to 

 me that your have got in your secretary a man that can do 

 just such work. Your president has suggested to you the 

 kind of work that is good. It will do for a little while, but 

 men do not like to work like the bees for nothing. If you could 

 salary your secretary and put him into this work he would 

 revolutionize it all over your state. We have done that in 

 our state. Mr. Garfield worked us up and kept us full of 

 enthusiasm, and I believe you have in your secretary just 

 the man to do the same work. You may not be able to do 

 it just now. 



Pres. Smith — I believe that Prof. Cook speaks the mind 

 of the society. The trouble is and has been that we have 

 not money enough to carry out such a plan. We have been 

 afraid to ask the legislature to give us as much money as 

 we needed, and perhaps our modesty has been a damage 

 to us. 



INJURIOUS INSECTS AND HOW TO FIGHT THEM. 



By Prof. A. J. COOK, MicHiaAN Agbicultu;kal College. 



This subject of injurious insects, to which I have given 

 much study, is one of tremendous magnitude, whose im- 

 portance is rapidly growing as the years go by. We are 

 taking the natural food plants from our native insects, as 

 we clear away the forest's brush wood, and the more hum- 

 ble herbs of fen and upland. And the insects, bent on get- 

 ting even with us, are robbing us of our fruits, grains and 

 vegetables. Each year sees some new insect enemy, which 

 often comes as a devastating fiood upon whatever of fruit, 

 grain or vegetable it may attack. 



New imported insects, of all these miserable pests the 

 most to be dreaded, are coming year by year to our shores. 

 So emphatically true is this, that were we not also, at the 



