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PROF. SURFACE: I used it only once; that was in January of 

 last year, and I have seen that 1-10 of the prepared wash is not as 

 strong as the home boiled 17-22. 



MR. FOX: About a week or two ago Prof. Surface sent out a 

 warning in regard to the Brown-tail Moth; how did you find it? 



PROF. SURFACE: I am glad you called my attention to that; it 

 is one of the most important subjects to come before the meeting. 

 The San Jos^ Scale, as compared with the Brown-tail Moth, is but 

 a shadow as compared with the substance. It will eat the leaves off 

 practically every deciduous tree, and the hairs of that moth will 

 drop down, and as they are poisonous; you will see pedestrians going 

 along, scratch, scratch, scratch. It will give every man, woman, 

 child, dog and horse the "itch." Beside it, the San Jos6 Scale is 

 but a shadow. It lives in winter in little tents on the branches of 

 the trees as young larvae. There has been an unusual importation 

 of it this year on the stalks of French seedlings and roses, particu- 

 larly the stalks on which the finest roses are grafted. In Massa- 

 chusetts they appropriated |300,000 last year to fight the Gypsy 

 Moth, and they also appropriated $30,000 extra to bring in para- 

 sites to stamp it out. That simply shows to what extent these rav- 

 ages can go. If you see any little bunches or tents, like the tents of 

 the caterpillar, destroy them immediately by burning. It is the best 

 and simplest solution of the case. They will also be killed by any 

 of the arsenic sprays. 



REPORT OP MR. C. A. GREIST. 



Delegate from Fruit Growers Association of Adams County. 



The Adams County Fruit Growers Association met on December 

 15, 16 and 17. We had with us able men from New York, New 

 Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, who talked to us very interestingly 

 and instructively. The meeting opened on Wednesday afternoon, 

 with the customary devotional exercises, after which Mr. W. H. 

 Black, one of our own members, read a very important paper giv- 

 ing an account of our work throughout the year. Prof. Baker, of 

 State College, talked to us on the subject of Forestry; he made 

 a very strong plea for the preservation of our forests, and urged 

 that every person who had a piece of land without any natural 

 growth, plant some trees there, and thus get some forest growth all 

 over the country. We have a great deal of land in Pennsylvania, 

 which, as Mr. Hale would say, we are too tired to work; that land 

 could be successfully used for tree planting. Mr. Jos. Barton, of 

 New Jersey, presented the subject of peach growing, but what he 

 said has been pretty well covered in the different talks during this 

 session. There are certain things in peach growing with which 

 every person has to contend — such as "Yellows" and "Little Peach." 

 We have heard a great deal about the "Yellows" and borers, and 

 mice and scale, pruning orchards and other things that are neces- 

 sary to successful peach growing. Pruning is as necessary for the 

 peach as it is for the apple, and right here it is, it seems to me, 

 that peach growers make their mistake. Every one knows that it 

 is the new wood in peach trees that produces the fruit, and Mr. 



