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C. Engle, of Paw Paw, presents upon the same table a whole box of the 

 Diana, iu nicely shouldered compact bunches, perfectly preserved. 



Mr. Bidwell is here with the lona, the queen of our common varieties. 

 There your committee would fain have lingered testing the variety, discoursing 

 upon its delicate aroma and exquisite flavor, until there was none left to tell 

 the story to others, but actuated by a feeling of benevolence we passed to the 



FIGS. 



Mr. Bidwell shows a plate of figs grown upon his own place, with nothing 

 but common cultivation and out of door care. While at South Haven, last fall, 

 we noticed a goodly supply of thistles. "Whether contrary to the Bible state- 

 ment, they are there raising figs from thistles we are not warranted in saying, 

 but feel that if these earnest people supplant each of their thistles by a tree 

 producing such excellent fruit as Mr. Bidwell presents they are on the high 

 road to fortune. 



A plate of chestnuts in the burr bearing the name of D. M. Bagley is upon 

 exhibition. They were grown in Lansing. 



A few grapes not mentioned, and a plate of pears, were without the name of 

 the donor, and we cannot give credit to whom it is due. 



Several plates of the Isabella were placed upon exhibition by Hon. Mr. Shaw 

 of Eaton Eapids, in fine preservation. All of which is respectfully submitted. 



CHAS. W. GARFIELD, 

 P. D. SNEATHEN, 

 S. M. PEARSALL, 

 JOHN GILBERT, 



Committee. 



CONCLUDING PROCEEDINGS OF THURSDAY. 



On Thursday afternoon. Prof. Cook illustrated, by means of charts, the divi- 

 sions of natural history, and proceeded to give a brief lecture relative to the 

 codling moth. He exhibited a trap for catching the cut worm, which consisted 

 of a tin band six inches wide with a hole for a tack in one end and a slit 

 several inches long in the other. This band is wound around the tree or grape 

 vine and fastened by a tack passing through the hole and slit into the tree. 

 His trap for catching the codling moth was a woolen band wound around the 

 tree and fastened by a string tied around it in the middle. Whether the worms 

 ascend the tree from the ground or descend from the branches, they are caught 

 by the band, where they are easily killed by pressing the bands or otherwise. 

 The professor exhibited two bands which he had used the past season, and 

 which gave evidence of having done good work in slaughtering. 



Mr. Toles, of Benton Harbor, put his bands iu the crotches of the trees and 

 run them through a clothes wringer to kill the insects. 



Prof. Cook said this would not catch all the worms. 



Mr. Parmelee said this subject of the codling moth was of great importance. 

 He thought that catching was the great thing, the manner of killing was only 

 a matter of taste. 



