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to find. Just dissolve as much salt as the water will hold, 

 put in your specimens, and keep them covered. You can 

 preserve any fruit you desire by covering it with brine as salt 

 as salt will make it. 



Mr. . A disease has appeared in apples in Hartford 



county, consisting of specks or spots of brown, of various 

 sizes, spreading from the blossom end, and finally destroying 

 the fruit. Has any one any light to throw upon this matter? 



Mr. Augur. I have no doubt that is a disease of a fungus 

 nature, but what the remedy is I am unable to say. 



Col. Warner. I would like to ask Mr. Augur what his 

 remedy is for the maggot ? All the early varieties of apples 

 in my section were ruined last year and this year by the 

 maggot. * 



Mr. Augur. At the meeting of the American Pomological 

 Society at Philadelphia, I asked Prof. Rogers that same 

 question, as I did not know of any remedy myself. He said w 

 that the only remedy he could suggest was keeping animals 

 in the orchard, to pick up the falling fruit. I think it possible 

 that, if some insecticide were applied at the right time it 

 might be effectual, but I do not feel sufficiently familiar with 

 the habits of the worm. to answer that question. 



Col. Warner. I have kept hogs in my orchard for years ; 

 they eat every apple that falls, but the evil is not remedied. 

 The inside of the apples that fall is full of little yellow streaks, 

 where a worm or insect of some kind has run all through. 

 Sweet apples are especially affected by it, and early apples 

 are entirely ruined. 



Mr. Gold: I consider it the most threatening pest at pres- 

 ent to apple culture in the State of Connecticut. I am troubled 

 with it in my orchards. 



Col. Warner. In the orchard where I keep hogs I have no 

 canker worms whatever, but the hogs have not stopped the 

 maggot. 



Mr. Hyde. My experience has been very similar to that 

 of Col. Warner. My entire crop of apples has been ruined by 



