58 State Horticultural Society. 



Goodman. — Kansas City wants early grapes, therefore plant 

 Moore's Early and you can have it on the market ten days before Con- 

 cord. Campbell's ripens the last of July and is worth a trial. There is 

 money in the early varieties. 



Whitten. — Early Ohio, productive and early next to Moore's, it 

 can be eaten earlier but is not good flavor. It has a large bimch and 

 ripens evenly. 



Snodgrass. — With us it does not ripen regularly, but has green 

 berries on the bunch with the ripe ones. 



DISCUSSION ON INSECTS. 



Member. — Curculio in a Ben Davis orchard seems to cut a semi- 

 circular sting on the apples and check their growth. 



Miss Murtf eldt, Kirkwood, Mo. — The apple curculio does make the 

 semi-circle but the plum curculio stings apples. Apples drop from other 

 causes. 



Lamm. — A little borer in the plum tree limbs is liable to kill my 

 orchard. 



Miss Murtfeldt. — This is the bark beetle and the remedy is to cut 

 and burn. Cultivation does not help. 



Evans. — What shall we do for insects on our rose leaves ? 



Miss Murtfeldt. — The insect is the rose slug and hellebore in pow- 

 der is good, or as a tea sprayed at night, made of one ounce to two and a 

 half gallons of water. 



Robnett, Columbia. — What of Liggett's Champion Dry Powder 

 to use instead of Bordeaux. I use lime for those fellows on the plums. 



Miss Murtfeldt. — Bordeaux is for fungus diseases. 



Evans. — Will a light trap catch the codling moth and will it catch 

 our friendly insects ? 



Miss Murtfeldt. — The light-trap will not do away with codling 

 moths to any extent but will catch other enemies, though not many 

 friends, as but few fly at night. 



T. W. Wade of Eepublic gave many valuable points relating to the 

 canning industry. He claims that southwest Missouri is the center of 



