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more Keiffer and Duchess pears tlian all other kinds and have noticed 

 the same trees of these varieties bear year after jear. 



W. H. LiTsoN, Jr., 



Nevada, Mo. 



INSECTS OF THE PEAR. 



Prof. Stedman. — The pear is liable to be attacked by most of the 

 insects that prey upon the apple. It is also attacked by the twig girdler 

 from the forest which deposits its eggs in the small limbs, goes down 

 the twig further and there girdles it. These twigs drop to the ground. 

 Gather them and burn right away before the young hatch out. The 

 twig borer is troublesome in the southern part of the state. They trim 

 the tree. Another insect, the pruner also, eats the t^vigs from the in- 

 side so they break and drop off. Gather and burn. Borers and codling 

 moth are the same as those of the apple and should be fought in the 

 same way as I gave for the apple. The gouger attacks the pear and is 

 difficult to combat. It is a large curculio which eats holes in the pear 

 while young. The leaves are subject to the attack of a great many 

 insects. Spray with the arsenical compound if they eat portions away. 

 If they are sucking insects spray with tobacco water or kerosene emulsion. 



DISEASES OF THE PEAR. 



Prof. Whitten. — There is one principle disease of the pear 

 in this state of which some of you have heard in the past. If we could 

 get rid of it the business of pear growing would be so profitable that 

 it would soon be unprofitable. At the present time it prevents over- 

 production. It is the pear blight. If we could control it pear growing 

 would be easy. Scab attacks the pear as the apple. Use the same 

 treatment; it yields quite readily to Bordeaux mixture. If there is 

 anv other disease vou have noticed in vour pear orchard I shall be verv 

 glad to discuss it with you. 



Maj. Holsinger. — There is one thing worse than all those that have 

 been named: that is thirty-two degrees below zero. 



Mr. Wilcox. — Would spraying be of any benefit? 



Prof. Whitten. — Some diseases may, I think, be kept in check by 

 winter spraying. The pear requires spraying in the summer to keep 



