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cut-worms; but if it feeds or is in future to feed wholly on the corn then, 

 indeed, will it be a serious pest, and we shall have to trust to its natural 

 enemies to hold it in chock, which they will for the most part very likely do. 

 ^■i Before closing I wish again to recommend the Dixon spraying nozzle, 

 which I think the best ever made; also the Field force pump which every 

 large orchardist should possess. This pump will also serve admirably to 

 spray all trees with liquids and also to spray potatoes, etc., with liquid 

 poisons. 



Some one inquired of Prof. Cook how to make kerosene emulsion. 



Prof. Cook — I take 1 quart of soft soap, 1 pint of kerosene and I quart of 

 water. This is churned into an emulsion and will then readily mix with 

 water. I take one part of this mixture to fifteen of water for application. 



Mr. Lyon — Mr. D. B. Weir of Illinois plants native American plums 

 among his orchards of plums, and although they are stung by the curculio, 

 rarely one matures. In this way he protects his other varieties. 



Prof. Bailey — I have a number of trees of Primus Americana and the 

 curculio seems to work in them full as badly as in the other sorts, and 

 destroys them, too. 



Prof. Bailey described the marked success the past season in using the 

 Lockport pump and wagon attachment, in spraying the College orchards. 

 The fruit was very free from worms and the expense of application very light. 



Mr. Rosencranz — How about killing upon the early and late sorts in the same 

 application? 



Prof. Biiley — We sprayed Northern Spy and Red Astrachan at same time 

 and found it equally effective on either variety. 



J. A. Pearce — How shall we fight the thrips ? 



Prof. Cook — Stir them up, and while on the wing, spray with kerosene 

 emulsion. Mr. Hanford, of Bristol, I believe, has been very successful in this 

 method. 



Robert Graham — I have practiced successfully the plan of throwing lime 

 and ashes on my plum trees to drive away the curculio, I have a few peach 

 trees close by my plum orchard and these are attacked by the curculio, and 

 all the fruit destroyed. This plan, I know, does not recognize the fact that 

 our neighbors have plum trees to be protected, but this is a sad and wicked 

 world any way, and one's neighbors are sometimes left out in the cold in our 

 calculations. 



The president announced the next subject as 



EXPERIMENTS IN" HORTICULTURE, 



and called upon Prof. L. H. Bailey, who said : 



^As a delegate from the State Horticultural Society, I attended the Asso- 

 ciation of American State Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations 

 which convened in Washington, October 18, 19 and 20, 1887. The especial 

 business of this convention was to discuss the provisions of the Hatch bill 

 and to outline work of investigation which should occupy the attention of 

 the States. Most of the older States were represented by one or more dele- 

 gates, the attendance at the convention numbering over fifty persons. A 

 spirit of enthusiasm and love of investigation pervadad the meeting, and there 

 was a decided desire on the part of all present to use all the funds accruing 

 from the operation of the Hatch bill in honest, faithful and cousecudve 

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