484 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Hurlbut said he though fc small fruits like mixed husbandry iu farming, 

 — a benefit to the peach grower, as it furnishes constant employment to labor, 

 the proceeds of which helped to furn ish means for the support of the orchard. 



Mr. Wigglesworth said that the gathering of raspberries and blackberries, 

 which required the most time and greatest labor in the cultivation of small 

 fruits, interfered with the thinning and picking of peaches. 



'No question was raised as to the comparative profitableness of growing dif- 

 ferent kinds of small fruits, because all pay. 



THE CODLING MOTH, 



or parent of the apple-worm, was next brought up. 



Mr. Bailey said the miller was about half an inch long, of a gray ash color, 

 ■with a brown and bronze colored spot on each wing, the male having short 

 black hairs on the upper part of its back wings. The worm when full grown 

 is about three-fourths of an inch in length, of a pinkish color, with a brown 

 head. He found the miller flying about his house at dusk lately. They flew 

 up and down in a zigzag motion, and not sideways. Had frequently noticed 

 that they flew towards the light, and could easily be caught by clapping the 

 hands together down and upwards. He thought they came from his apple 

 barrels in his cellar, where they had hatched this winter. Had hatched many 

 out in jars recently. Mr. Chatfield, his neighbor, had found them hatched 

 under cloth bands in his orchard this spring. Mr. Bailey said that the silken 

 cocoons could still be found under the rough bark of the apple tree and in the 

 crevices near the base of the tree. He thought that if we all united in destroy- 

 ing them they could be kept under control, and after we had done all we could 

 we might call in the birds to assist us. 



Mr. Hurlbut said that when the apples were young the eggs were laid in the 

 calyx: the eggs were about one-eighth of an inch in length and nearly white. 

 When the apples were larger they would frequently be stung on the side. By 

 stinging he meant where the worm entered the apple. The eggs must be laid 

 all summer, as the worms could be found at all times under the bands in dif- 

 ferent stages of development. 



Mr. Wigglesworth would recommend the use of tar barrels to catch the mil- 

 lers in. 



The following letter from the Michigan Parmer was read by the secretary: 



Detroit, April 4, 1874. 

 Mr. n. E. Bidwell : 



Dear Sir: — In reply to yours of March 30th we would say that we will put your society 

 on our list free, as we think it will pay us to have it on file there. 



Very respectfully yours, JOHNSTONE & GIBBONS. 



Whereupon a vote of thanks was tendered them by the society, and on 

 motion of D. B. Williams they were made honorary members. 



A postal card was also read, from the secretary of the Lake Shore Agricul- 

 tural Society at Saugatuck, as follows : 



Saugatuck, Michigan, March 30, 1874. 

 To tJie Secretxry of tlie South Haven Pomological Society : 



Dear Sir : — The Lake Shore Pomological Society at a recent meeting instructed me to 

 write to you in regard to the present mode of marketing fruit in Chicago^ and I cannot ex- 



