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Miss M. — It can be controlled with fresh wood ashes. Wooly 

 aphis in its perfect insect form resembles a small fly or gnat. It may 

 sometimes be seen flying in the air in great numbers. It develops 

 partly above and partly in the ground. It is a very good plan to wash 

 the trunks of apple-trees in winter to kill the eggs. It is very difficult 

 to find the eggs. There is no danger to the tree in the kerosene emul- 

 sion if it is properly made. Use two gallons of the oil, one-half pound 

 of soap dissolved in one gallon of water, churn the mixture thoroughly 

 till it resembles thick cream ; dilute with twenty gallons of water. It 

 don't make a particle of difference whether it is whale-oil or other soap. 



The cabbage bug is going north every year. Hot water and hand 

 picking are the remedies. 



Beau weevil has done much damage. Seed may be saved by put- 

 ting in a tight jar with a cubic inch of gum camphor, or a little naph- 

 thaline. The egg is deposited in the bean-before it ripens. We gen- 

 erally find them in the seed beans in the fall. 



THuesDAY, December 8 — 2 p. m. 



Report of Committee on Transportation was received and adopted, 

 and the Committee continued : 



Your Committee on Transportation, appointed in pursuance of a resolution 

 passed at the Thirty-fourth annual session of this body, and as printed on pages 

 161 and 162 of the 1892 report, beg leave to report as follows : 



1. That to secure proper attention from the traffic managers of railroads, so 

 as to lay before them for favorable action any grievance regarding freight rates 

 members of this society may have, there should be a permanent committee created 

 by amendment of article VI of the Constitution, so that same will read when 

 amended: Art. 4, Constitution is amended, adding the wora "transportation," 

 so as to read as follows : 



As soon after each regular annual meeting as possible, the president shall ap- 

 point the following standing committees, and they shall be required to give a report 

 in writing under their respective heads at the annual and semi-annual meetings of 

 the Society, of what transpires of interest to the Society : Orchards, Vineyards, 

 Stone Fruits. Small Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers, Ornamentals, Entomology, Orni- 

 thology, Botany, Nomenclature New Fruits, Injurious Fungi, Packing and Market- 

 ing of Fruit, Transportation. 



Your Committee believe from investigation that the traffic on all Missouri 

 railroads is subject to a classification by joint representatives of all the roads, 

 known as a classification committee, whose authority is absolute to classify all com- 

 modities, and whose action is final in governing rate sheets until repealed or 

 changed by this classification body; and in creating the Committee on Transporta- 

 tion, to represent this body, their duty will be to determine where and upon whom 

 discriminating rates exist, and go before or file information in writing before this 

 classification committee, with suggestions for remedial action to relieve each sub- 

 ject to such discrimination. C. C. Bell, 



J. M. Rice, 

 L. A. Goodman, 



Committee. 



