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moth carries conviction that the principle of the trap is a good 

 one, and that, properly applied at the right time it must be as 

 effectual as any device can be which does not encircle the tree. 

 That they would seek shelter in it if the}' came near enough to 

 observe it seems certain, but some might miss a single trap on a 

 tree. A man with plenty of old shingles, (old would be better 

 than new if these had any pitchy odor,) could make scores, per- 

 haps hundreds in a day, and do it at leisure, in winter, and even 

 affix them to the trees to save time at a busier season. 



Mr. Weir has obtained a patent for this simple device, alleging 

 his belief that through the efforts of agents it can thus be brought 

 sooner into general "use, and accomplish more good to the com- 

 munity. His charge for its use is moderate, I believe $2 for an 

 orchard under five hundred trees, $3 for one under a thousand, 

 about enough, as he thinks, to remunerate him for the trouble and 

 expense of introducing it among orchardists. 



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Adjourned. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The session was opened with a lecture by Hon. John Stanton 

 Gould of Hudson, New York, on " The Management of Meadows 

 and Pastures." 



Management of Meadows and Pastures. 



A merely cursory glance at the vegetable kingdom will convince 

 us of the vast importance of The Grasses to the whole family of 

 man ; a more minute and careful survey of this great field of ob- 

 servation will make us wonder that the agricultui'al world has 

 been content for so many generations to remain so ignorant of 

 their nature and properties, as we know they have always been. 



The latest and most certain conclusions of science coincide with 

 the Apostle's statement, that "all flesh is grass." They demon- 

 strate most conclusively that in thus saying, he yields to no mere 

 poetic fancy, but gives utterance to a sober and unvarnished fact. 

 The elegant contour of the human form, the ear that drinks in the 

 melody of song, the tongue that communicates the utterances of 

 the soul, the sparkling eye, the ruby lip, and every portion of our 

 material frame, owes its origin, either mediately or immediately, 

 to the grasses of the field. It is their appointed iunction to gather 

 and combine the scattered elements of inorganic matter in such 



