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efFectnal remedy recommended was to keep tins continnally tacked around tlie 

 trunk of the tree, so the worms cannot ascend, and keep the ground, clean, so- 

 as to starve them out. 



Buggino is the science of entomology that relates to fruit culture. In the 

 study of birds which destroy our insect enemies we include ornithology; in 

 the fertilization of flowers we include the science of botany ; in the fertility of 

 the soil, geology, — so that if pomology is not a separate science, it is a com- 

 pound one. 



Alfred Fitch inquired what kind of a bug it was he had found under his- 

 chip trap, resembling in shape the common curculio, but larger. 



John Williams said it must be the apple curculio. 



G. W. Griffin remarked that they were becoming frequent here. They re- 

 sembled the apple curculio he had seen in Wisconsin. 



A. S. Dyckmaun said that the plum curculio, which "was the pest of our 

 peach orchards, were not as plenty as last season, doubtless on account of the 

 thorough work he made last year in destroying them by the Ransom chip-trap- 

 process. He thought this the most effectual remedy, and where this failed in 

 removing them he would use the sheets. He would not recommend the plan 

 of Mr. Windoes, of driving them to other orchards with a tar smudge; any 

 method short of killing them was radically wrong. 



J. Lannin said he had discovered a large brown beetle in his plum trees, 

 eating out the center of the new growth. The beetles are smaller than the 

 May beetle, with a roundish, oblong body ; they visit the trees at dusk, and 

 burrow in the ground during the day. They can be found by observing the 

 round holes they make in the ground. 



Alfred Fitch suggested that hereafter insects and worms injurious to fruit 

 tree or roots be brought into the meetings. 



WHAT IS BUGGING ? 



South Haven, Jane 6, 1874. 



A. S. Dyckman reported good success with the chip-trap in catching curcu- 

 lio. Caught l,(iOO last Saturday, and nearly as many to-day, — Monday. Em- 

 ployed boys for the purpose of collecting them. Each boy carried a can for 

 worms and a bottle for bugs. When through, the bugs were scalded and spread 

 on a sheet to count, to ascertain which boy had done the best. Did not find 

 as many twig-borer beetles or snap-bugs as last season. 



B. H. Dyckman said he watched a small green worm eating a green cherry, 

 and in less than an half hour he had eaten half of it. These worms are not found 

 under the chips. When hatched, produce a small variegated miller, red and 

 yellow. 



W. H. Hurlbut said the tent caterpillars usually make a web in the crotch 

 of two limbs, eating the foliage flean, and spreading the tent as they proceed. 

 This season they spread over more surface, and he thought perhaps they were 

 a different worm, as they worked more like the worm which appears later in 

 the season. This is doubtless owing to the warm weather of late. 



