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of yourself and the State Board of Agriculture. I also read a paper before 

 the winter meeting of the Michigan State Horticultural Society, and pre- 

 pared and delivered an address as president of the State Bee Keepers' 

 Society. I have also spoken before several farmers' clubs during the year. 



DONATIOKS TO ZOOLOGICAL DEPAETMENT. 



F. J. Niswander: Alligator. 



H. J. DeGarmo: Deformed femur. 



C. B. Cook — mounted specimens : 



Australian thrush. 



Sickle-billed humming bird. 



Sword-beaked hummer. 



S. A. Toucan. 



Grass parakeet. 



Swift lorikeet. 



Green heron. 



Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus. 



Xiphocoloptes albicollis. 



Falcunculus frontolus. 



Collared peccary 



Echidna. 



Prairie dog. * 



Prairie wolf. 



Kangaroo. 



Mountain quail. 



American bittern. 



White ibis. 



Long billed curlew. 



Rough legged buzzard 



C. L. Rose : Fossil fish (3 specimens). 



H. 0. Hipp-. Fossil coral. 



O. H. Hoyt: Gizzard of goose (abnormal). 



W. W. Diehl: Trilobite. 



J. I. Ames : Emery. 



Mr. Warren : Feather bone. 



M. D. Oshand : Work of pine borer. 



C. B. Cook: Stuffed birds (7 specimens). 

 F. H. Hall: Fossils f2 specimens). 



D. A. Hoffman: Fossils from Iowa coal (22 specimens). 

 J. F. Craig : Fossil baculite. 



W. M. Byar : Orthis occidentalis. 



Respectfully submitted, 



A. J. COOK 



EXPERIMENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY. 

 PLUM CURCULIO (CONOTKACHELUS IfENUPHAR). 



Paris green in the proportion of one table-spoonful to six gallons of water 

 was very thoroughly sprayed upon four plum trees May 18. The petals 

 had all fallen, but the dried calyxes still clung to the fruit. On August 20 

 the trees were visited, when it was found that the two treated trees of the 

 Wild Goose variety had dropped all their fruit, as had the untreated trees of 

 the same kind. Another treated tree of a yellow variety was loaded with 

 plums, of which only fifteen per cent were stung, and those not badly. The 

 fourth tree treated was a purple variety, and had not less than seventy-five 

 per cent of its fruit badly stung. 



