INDIANA HOETICULTUBAL SOCIETY. 639 



.Mrs. Harvey: I came to Kendallville last spring and bought a bushel 

 of peaches in a basket. I took It home and took the same basket and 

 filled it with pears and brought them back to town to sell, and the very 

 same man said, "This is not a bushel; it is only three pecks." I said. 

 "Yes, but it was a bushel when you sold the peaches to me." 



Mr. Lodewick: I want to ask if it would be fair for us to have 

 certain kinds of packages when the fruit that is shipped in from other 

 States is sold in the smaller measures? 



Mr. WUIiams: I would like to answer that question. That was the 

 objection used against this to the State Horticultural Committee ap- 

 pointed to draft a bill for the Legislature. It died a-borning, and I have 

 never heard of it from then until now. 



Mr. Lodewick: I notice there is not much difference in the quart 

 boxes. 



Mr. Williams: The consumer will notice the difference, and will buy 

 the fi-uit much quicker if it is in the larger box. You should establish a 

 reputation that will stick to you. 



Prof. Latta: We will now hear from Prof. Troop. 



Prof. Troop: Possibly most of the people understand many of the 

 insects and diseases affecting the orchard, and I brought along this chart 

 to illustrate some of the things that I want to say, and we should first 

 keep in our mind when we are trying to fight insects of any kind that 

 there are two classes of insects so far as their getting their living is con- 

 cerned. One class of insects eats its fool and the other class sucks its 

 food. This class of insects that affect the apple will eat the foliage, an- 

 other will eat the fruit. Now this class of insects can be destroyed, 

 or held in check, by the use of some arsenite. Paris green or some- 

 thing of that kind. Anything that kills by being taken into the stomach 

 will kill them. The other class that may iiffect the foliage or stem of the 

 fruit is the class that gets its food by sucking. It does not chew its food, 

 but simply pierces the tissue of the leaf or stem or twig and sucks the 

 juices. You can not kill these bugs with Paris green or arsenic or any- 

 thing of that kind. It must be destroyed hy some substance that will kill 

 it by coming in contact with its body. I am often asked how to kill these 

 bugs. One man told me that he found his trees were literally covered with 

 them, and that he put Paris green on the trees, but that it didn't have any 

 effect on the bugs whatever. He said it seemed to him as If it only put 

 life into them. Of course, it wouldn't kill them. He didn't understand 

 what he was trying to do. This particular point is not thoroughly un- 

 derstood by a great many people. They know how to manage anything 

 that will eat the foliage, but a gi'eat many have an idea that Paris 



