174 STATE BOARD OF AGEICULTURE. 



Michigan, exhibited to me one of the little Turks that he had kept three years 

 in a bottle with no food, and the cnrculio still lived. Perhaps the smell of the 

 bottle may have been sufficient stimulus to retain life. They say it has this effect 

 upon some men." 



Mr. J. M. Fuller. — Is the currant ^yornl mentioned in the paper what we 

 know as the web worm?"' 



Prof. Cook. — ''No; the web worm is what is commonly termed a measuring 

 worm, and has not been known to do much injury in this State as yet." 



Mr. A. C. Satterlee. — " When shall we plow to kill cut-worms." 



Mr. J. Satterlee. — The more prevalent opinion now among accurate observers 

 is that plowing in the fall is not for the purpose of turning the worms up to 

 freeze to death, but to allow the birds a good chance at them ; and with this 

 idea, of course early fall plowing, before the birds leave, is the most advisable 

 method." 



Prof. Cook. — "I would plow early and harrow well, so as to give the black 

 birds a chance for a good round meal before they leave us. As regards the 

 effect of frost upon the cut-worms I cannot do better than quote my own exijeri- 

 nients. I have subjected them to 30 degrees below freezing point and from this 

 ordeal they came out lively. My impression is that the freezing-out remedy 

 exists no farther than a hypothesis." 



Mr. Bradish. — "I am satisfied from my own experience that fall plowing late 

 is the best, no matter what the theory may be." 



The following question was voted upon : How many present believe in fall 

 plowing to kill cut-worms? Nearly all answered in the atBrmative. The ques- 

 tion of how many had, the past season, showed their faith by their work, was 

 put and less than half had plowed for this purpose. 



Mr. Garfield. — " What is the prevailing impression as to the soil best adapted 

 to the work of tlie wire worm?" 



Several answered that their devastation generally was more marked upon low, 

 black soils or heavy clays. 



Mr. Watkins, of Kent county, was decidedly of the opinion that fall plowing 

 was deatli to the worms only as it brought them into the clutches of the birds. 



AFTERNOON SESSIOJ^". 



Mr. C. L. Garfield, of the Agricultural College, gave the following address on 



''landscape gaedening for farmers." 



It is such an easy thing to talk of beauty and beautiful things, in a sort of 

 general way, without giving any genuine instruction, that I hesitate at the 

 very outset for the sake of making a resolution that my aim in this short address 

 shall not be to say pretty words about pretty possibilities, but rather to suggest 

 and point out a popular want among tlie farmers of Michigan, and state some 

 practical methods of answering it. 



The popular opinion, too, often would sneer at placing in so intimate a rela- 

 tionship the two extremes of my title, for the term landscape gardening brings 



