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cut of the curculio, with an accompanying description. I then went 

 to work with renewed courage and at one time caught fifty-seven ;; 

 I think I must have caught all of 500, though I did not count them. 

 Result : from the five trees jarred I got less than a dozen sound plums. 



This year I began as before, as soon as the bloom dropped, and 

 jarred five five-year-old and two three-year-old trees, keeping strict 

 account of all I jarred ; they numbered 162. Allowing half of them 

 to be females and each female capable of laying 600 eggs — which I 

 am sure I have read — I have destroyed 48,600 of the next year's crop^ 

 and not more than five per cent of my plums are stung. I do not 

 think there were more than 48,600 plums on my trees, so you see if I 

 had not jarred they would all have been stung this year. The tree» 

 were so loaded that I had to thin them, and in doing so took pains to 

 get all of the stung ones and burn them. 



I see Judge Samuel Miller says he will have a good crop of pluma 

 and his trees were neither jarred nor sprayed, and that to save the 

 trees he would be compelled to thin the fruit. Now, if he or anyone 

 else who has to thin, will gather all of the wormy ones and burn them, 

 they will have less to contend with next year. 



J, H. Marion, Callaway county, Mo. 



An Apple That Pays. 



In 1887 we bought a small farm in Ste. Genevieve county, Mo., a 

 county that lies along the Mississippi river, in the southeastern por- 

 tion of the State. 



On that farm there were about 85 fruit trees, ten of them peach 

 trees, and the others apple trees of several varieties. Some Maiden 

 Blush, Rambo, Early Harvest, Red June and Red Astrakan, and one 

 or two other kinds. 



The farm contained 40 acres, and the man we bought it of could 

 not make a living off of it and pay the interest on some outstanding- 

 notes. He was devoting its 30 acres of tillable land to wheat and 

 corn. He paid no attention to the apples, other than to eat a few, dry 

 a few, and let his hogs have the balance. 



When we got the place he had 11 acres in wheat, which crop sold 

 for about $60, gross. The fruit season was past for that year. The 

 next year we paid our attention to the fruit. There were about 25 

 Maiden Blush apple trees, six or eight each of Early Harvest and Red 

 Junes, a like number of Rambos. We boxed and shipped the Harvest 

 and Junes to St. Louis, and sold them for forty cents per third bushel 



