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are made, for every housekeeper has ber book of recipes, which is far 

 better than anything T can give ; my attempts in this direction have 

 been guided mostly by the eyes and palate, bat I will add that I get 

 better results from rapid cooking with both jellies and preserves ; fruit 

 that doesn't cook easily should be steamed tender before giving to the 

 syrup, and that which cooks too readily should be lifted out two or 

 three times while cooking ; this keeps it from breaking. Jelly is bet- 

 ter not cooked too stiff, and it keeps better, for when too hard it 

 draws from the glass and lets in the air, which ciuses it to ferment. If 

 the tissue papers we put over our jellies are covered with sugar it will 

 prevent mold. 



Man's work and food has much to do with man. Anyone might 

 envy the horticulturist, with his frank and genial face, no conscience 

 weighing him down ; his is a clean work, humanitarian, elevating, liv- 

 ing so close to nature, he is in touch with nature's God. May his 

 work go on and on, until every man, woman and child in our State and 

 all the states and the whole world have all the health-giving fruit they 

 need, and may no piece of bread be refused jelly or preserves. 



Mas. Wm. Quayle. 



DTSCUSSTOC?. 



Mr. Stanton of Illinois — We failed in Illinois to get a law passed 

 to exterminate the San Jose scale. We did get an appropriation of 

 $3,000 to investigate and experiment upon the scale. The State now 

 has a professor spraying with whale-oil soap. When discovered, two 

 years ago, the State Horticultural Society undertook to fight it, sup- 

 posing that it was found in only one place. We have not discovered 

 it in any nursery in the State, but have found it in twenty-nine different 

 places. One place in the extreme southern part of the State is beyond 

 control. It is about 25 miles square and is found in the forests. 



After visiting your meeting last year I returned home to find there 

 an assistant of the State Entomologist, who located the scale in my 

 pear orchard of 2,500 trees. I did not know before this that I had it, 

 though I had lost a good many trees by the blight, as I thought. I 

 undertook to fight the scale myself with soft soap and copperas, but 

 was only partially successful. I used this mixture upon 1,700 trees. 

 Upon many of them, I think, there is no scale left. I think soft soap 

 will do if you can get it on all parts of the trees where scale is found. 

 I feel encouraged. 



It is strange that there should be no scale in the nurseries of Illi- 

 nois or this State when it is found in so many orchards, I am satis- 



