54 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, 



name of the enclosed thistle? It is very troublesome.' "The enclosed 

 leaves are supposed to be smeared with blood ; will you give us your opinion 

 on the subject?" They were affected with a fungus growth. " What is the 

 named of the enclosed plant? (silene). It is a new, troublesome weed in 

 wheat." "What is the cause of wheat blight?" 



A Professor of agriculture asks: "Does timothy blossom twice?" "Please 

 give name of enclosed plant," (amirosia). "Wliere can seed of Blue-joint 

 grass {calamagrastis Canadensis), be obtained ?" "What ails my plum leaves?" 

 "What success do you have with Paris green in killing the apple worm, and 

 curculio?" "Can you tell me what ails my celery, and give remedy? Brown 

 spots appear when set out." "Please name a few varieties of plums for Mich- 

 igan." "Why were peach trees, that were protected by snow drifts, killed 

 during the past winter, while those standing in cold, bleak places were not?" 

 "How much salt to the acre, on clay laud, is required to kill worms, and 

 what kind of salt is best?" "Please send me the name of some reliable 

 grocer or commission merchant in Lansing, who would like to handle pota- 

 toes." "Can choice seed of water melon originate plants the fruit of which 

 may be spoiled by pollen of citron in an adjoining bed ; also, will cucumbers 

 and gourds mix?" "Please give name of the enclosed flowers, which came 

 from Colorado." "Please give the name of the enclosed leaves," (mulberry), 

 "I send you roots and stubble of a stool of wheat that was found in a forty- 

 acre field of Fultz wheat. Would like to know what kind it is," 



The commissioner of immigration requests the following: "Please to send 

 me the names of the species of maples, ashes, cherries, elms, hickories, oaks, 

 and birches given in your report of the flora of Michigan, published in 'Mich- 

 igan and its Resources.' " "Where is red cedar found?" "Will you please 

 answer the following questions in regard* to a peach orchard : "Will peaches 

 be likely to succeed on a light, sandy hill, sloping to the west, with woods on 

 north and south sides?" "Which varieties are best for a succession of fruit?" 

 "(Jan you give me the names of two or three reliable nurserymen whose trees 

 have not been troubled with yellows?'^ "Are the K)chesLer nurseiymen, and 

 the firm of J. S. Collins, of New Jersey, reliable?" How far apart should 

 peach trees be planted?" "Sliall I buy one-year-old trees?" "Please send 

 name of the enclosed 2)lant," {xanthium spinofyuni). "Do you know of any 

 varieties of fruit (grapes excepted), whose exact parentage is known?" "Do 

 you know of any different results having been obtained by systematic crosses, 

 or are most of our varieties accidental, or supposed crosses?" "Can results 

 of any cross be predicted with any degree of certainty?" "Which do you 

 consider the best lor bees, reseda odorata, rescla odorata grand iflura, amelio- 

 rata, Parson's new white, and new hybrid spiral?" "Can mignonette be 

 sown in drills in the fall?; how much should be sown to an acre? How wide 

 apart should the rows be? How wide apart in the diiil? How often should 

 mignonette be sown? Will it, after sown, remain permanently?" 



Questions were asked about alfalfa, about panicum cruss-galli. A member 

 . of the department of agriculture asks for information concernit)g a fungus, 

 {actomyces). A prominent politician sends a specimen of spurred wheat, and 

 wants to know what it is, the cause, etc. The master of the State Grange 

 asks questions about our agricultural college, and the teaching of agriculuire^ 

 in the common schools. The secretary of the American Holstein Association 

 asks for an addiess for the meeting at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Cliicago, 

 Illinois. 



