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future years you Suckers should find that our peach growers 

 are, by its aid, able to get a fair crop of peaches every year, 

 while yours are constantly destroyed by Mrs. Turk, our State 

 Government may condescend to send across the Mississippi a 

 few thousand pairs of the little Sigalplms for the trifling con- 

 sideration of $1.00 per pair ! If the money derived from this 

 Aew branch of industry should be safely set aside in the vaults 

 at Jefferson City, untij sufficient has accumulated to erect in 

 St. Louis a fire-proof building for a museum of Natural His- 

 tory, and Agricultural and Geological rooms, there would be 

 at least as much prospect of getting such a building as there 

 seems to be now ! 



THE APPLE CURCULIO. 



{^Anthonomus quadrigibbus. Say.) 



"Prove all things ; hold fast that which is good !" 



This injunction of St. Paul applies with just as much force 

 to us to-day, as it did in centuries past to the Thessalonians. 

 In what has been said above about the Plum Curculio, we have 

 had abundant opportunity of testing the soundness of the old 

 proverb ; and in ascertaining the history of the Apple Curculio, 

 which I am about to give you, it was very necessary to bear 

 the advice in mind. It often takes years to undo the assertions 

 of men who are in the habit of talking. glibly of that Avhich 

 they really know nothing about, and I ought to comment 

 severely on what has been said about this insect ; but I refrain 

 from doing so, in this case, lest it be said that my words are 

 prompted from personal considerations. I shall therefore 

 content myself with a plain narative of this insect's habits. 



First, then, let us explain the difi*erences between the perfect 

 states of this insect and the Plum Curculio, that any one of 

 you may distinguish between them. 



The snout of the Plum Curculio hangs down like the trunk 

 of an elephant ; it is short, stout, and does not admit of being 



