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another season it will infest several other limbs, or will have 

 died back much further. It is canker in the majority of cases 

 that is killing back the limbs of our trees, and in pruning we 

 cannot be too careful to remove the ends of all these dying 

 limbs. Cut them well back into the living tissue and get rid 

 of that source of the disease to the other healthy portions of the 

 tree and to the other healthy trees in the orchard. In the same 

 connection it should be said that where we prune small branches 

 infested in that way, great care should be taken to carefully 

 rake up and burn all the prunings, for if these things are left to 

 lie upon the land, with insects and birds lighting upon them 

 and then flying back to the trees, they become nearly 

 as bad a source of infection for other live healthy wood on the 

 ground as they would be if they were left upon the tree. Of 

 course in the case of an orchard which is cultivated, the small- 

 est twigs would probably be ploughed under and the source of 

 infection destroyed in that way. But we cannot be too careful 

 about sanitation in our orchards. Good sanitation is something 

 which goes right along with good spraying, and good spraying 

 cannot have its highest efficiency unless good sanitation accom- 

 panies it. It seems to me, in connection with the control of 

 our orchard pests and our orchard insects, that is the one thing 

 that should be emphasized in addition to what already has been 

 emphasized in the various sessions of the meeting. 



President Tw'itchell: We are now coming to the closing 

 moments of this session. I want to thank those present for 

 their promptness in attendance and for the excellent order which 

 has been maintained throughout, and for the freedom with 

 which we have participated in the discussion. It seems to me 

 that this may be a fruitful time which we have spent together. 



Prof. E. F. Hitchings : I have been asked to say a few 

 words in relation to Elaine's position in the New England Fruit 

 Show. At our annual meeting held three weeks ago in New 

 Hampshire, we voted to hold the next annual exhibit in Boston 

 next fall, during the last week in October or the first week in 

 November. The date has not been set but it will be later than 

 last year for the benefit of the states who worked at a disadvan- 

 tage last year. The meeting was held so early that most of the 

 leading varieties of Maine apples had not colored as they should, 

 and were not in a condition to exhibit. The exhibit last year 



