290 BOAED OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



Mr. Augur. This is damp bone, containing something 

 over twenty-five per cent, of moisture. 



Mr. Sedgwick. Bone in New York is worth twenty-eight 

 dollars a ton before it is ground, and if any farmer can buy 

 fine-ground bone for twenty-five dollars a ton, it is a great 

 investment. 



Prof. Clark of Amherst. We have used bone, potash, and 

 sulphate of magnesia for our peach trees, and the color they 

 gave to the fruit was astonishing. We sold our peaches, in 

 some cases, for a dollar a basket more than we could if they 

 had not been so handsomely colored. We put two tons of 

 bone, a ton of potash, and five hundred pounds of sulphate of 

 magnesia, on about twelve acres. 



Adjourned to evening. 



EVENING SESSION. 



The closing session of the Convention was called to order 

 at half-past seven o'clock, by Mr. Barstow, and a paper was 

 read by Leander Wetherell of Boston, on " Gardening and 

 Fruit Growing." 



The question box with miscellaneous questions occupied an 



hour. 



Mr. Hyde. I do not appear here as a commercial traveler 

 nor an advertising agent, but a little matter was placed in my 

 hands last night, with an earnest request from a personal 

 friend that at some convenient opportunity I would present 

 it to this meeting. It is a tree protector, which is said to be 

 a protection against all the insects which infest our forest and 

 fruit trees, with the exception, perhaps, of the curculio, which 

 is a winged insect. I will leave the article upon the desk, so 

 that it may be examined by any gentleman who has a desire 

 to do so. It is simply a rubber band, filled with ordinary 

 pins. It is said that it is impossible for any of the insects to 

 pass them. I have nothing more to say in regard to the 

 article. I have been told that the Secretary has had some 

 ■experience with it. 



