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bors. If so, they are just the kind of men that are needed to come in 

 and help their less fortunate brothers out of the rut. Then there are 

 others in our societies who would not think of allowing their neighbors 

 to turn out and husk corn or prune trees five or six days in each year 

 for then for nothing; yet who permit, if not expect, a few of their 

 fellow members to spend twenty five or fifty dollars' worth of time 

 yearly in conducting the meetings and keeping their society alive and 

 keeping all hands posted, while they stay at home and settle with 

 their consciences by the payment of their paltry little dues, yet have 

 the good judgment to be among the earliest to seek and the keenest to 

 appreciate the annual volume of reports when it comes around, seem- 

 ingly unmindful of the fact, however, that those reports are the results 

 of solid labor. The best that can be said of such a brother is that he is 

 unreasonable and thoughtless in thfe matter of a fair division of labor ; 

 for who, if there were no moral or social obligations involved, would 

 not gladly pay his legal dues and let others do the work? 



KEOEIPTS. 



PARIS GREEN AND THE CURCULIO. 



In the October number of the Fruit Recorder of the present year, 

 you invite the experience of those who have experimented with Paris 

 green upon the curculio. You will find a record of facts in this direc- 

 tion, from my pen in your paper dated August, 1884, and until some 

 tangible refutation can be produced by others to offset its value, it 

 should not be looked upon with distrust. That Paris green will ''do 

 the business" for the little Turk, I think is irrefutable — certainly it is 

 so from my own knowledge and trial for the last three seasons, and I 

 will say positivelj'^ that on very close investigation upon this year's 

 crop, I have not had one plum, prune or damson fall from the punc- 

 tures of a curculio ! But previous to the use of this remedy I looked 

 upon plum culture with an instinctive dismay almost ungovernable, 

 on account of its non-reliability. Oi course, it is not for me to force an 

 argument or intrude too much upon your columns concerning this cur- 

 culio remedy, but will simply crave a little space to show the sample 

 of some plum growers' logic when told of my experiments and results. 

 The whole batch of arguments produced by these men do not, how- 

 ever, amount to a "row of pins." William Creed. 



