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Mr. Chapin said the charges on orapes from Victor were 92 cents, A^'hile 

 those on potatoes were only 25 cents. 



Mr. Barry explained that it was on account of (he more perishable nature of 

 the goods that extra charge was made. 



Mr. Younglove said he never knew a case where the railroad company had 

 lost a dollar by goods perishing on the way. 



Dr. Sylvester mentioned how tlie railroad company carried a larger w'eight 

 of vegetables farther than they w'ould carry fruits for the same price. 



Mr. Sharp said the railroad companies would carry cheaper if we had some 

 other means of sending them. They would then carry them cheaper without 

 asking. 



Mr. Willard said that railroad comi^anies understood their business. He re- 

 garded the question as an impracticable one. 



Dr. Sylvester moved a committee of three to confer with superintendents of 

 freight in regard to transportation of fruits. 



Judge La line moved an amendment that the committee also confer with 

 express companies. 



Dr. Sylvester accepted the amendment. 



The motion was carried. 



Question eight was then called up, which was as follows : 



" Can unity of action he secured among fruit-growers for the destruction of 

 the codling moth ? What remedies for that and other insects injurious to apples 

 have leen tried, and with what results f^ 



Mr. Lazenby of Cornell Institute said that during the last season he had 

 charge of a portion of the University farm. Studied with care the working of 

 insects. Found on some trees 200 to 300 codling worms, only one in an apple. 

 The orchard was mainly Kings and Greenings. Found most of the worms ia 

 the Kings, and but few in Greenings. Thought it might be because the calyx 

 of the former was more open than that of the latter. 



Mr. Green of Eush had tried Paris green on the potato beetle, and found 

 that a small quantity was more effectual than a large. Used it as a solution, 

 and found that when a small quantity, about a tablespoonful to three gallons 

 of water, w'as used, they would eat the leaves wet with it, and die, but too much 

 would repel them. 



Mr. Craiue endorsed Mr. Green's statement; said he could find stain of green 

 on the leaves two weeks after, — stuck like paint. 



Mr. Chapin recommended the destruction of the codling moth now, which 

 could be found under the hoops of barrels in the cellars and in the bins. The 

 seed for another years' crop would thus be destroyed. He advised destroying 

 wormy apples and also inferior fruit. He thought the moth could be destroyed 

 by a little labor. 



Dr. Sylvester cautioned growers against using Paris green too freely. 



Mr. 0. P. Avery of Grand Traverse, Michigan, said they have a parasite — 

 the lady bug — that is checking the potato beetle there. Some who used Paris 

 green lost more potatoes than those who did not, as it destroyed the parasite as 

 well as the beetle. He then proceeded to relate how they fought the codling 

 worm in his section. The Old Mission Farmers' Club resolved that all the 

 apple-trees on the Grand Traverse Peninsula — a tract about twenty miles long 

 by one wide — should be bandaged last summer. If any individuals refused to 

 do it, the club would do it at its own expense. The result was all bearing trees 

 were bandaged. They used coarse brow^n paper, three thicknesses, folded fan- 



