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standing with dealers so they can depend on you. It is important to 

 establish hardy varieties, which can be done. The Experiment Station 

 is working on this line. Don't let your trees overbear. 



Mr. U. S. Helvern, of Mammoth Spring, Ark., said he had ripe 

 peaches Jane 5th this year, which were good keepers and carried well. 



Discussion on leaf curl was resumed. Prof. Whitten advised 

 severe prunuing early in spring and spraying. In California the dis- 

 ease has been controlled by spraying three weeks before the buds start 

 and again just as they do start. Use Bordeaux mixture with lime. 

 Cutting trees back now will help the tree to outgrow the leaf curl. 

 Same treatment will do for plum pocket. 



By Mr. Speakman — The leaf curl is doing great damage at Neosho. 

 Trees cut back in winter are suflferiag. 



By Prof. Whitten — Cut the growing twigs. 



By Sec. Goodman — To cut the tree while growing would ruin the 

 tree. The reports of advantage of pruning new growth must have 

 been wrong. 



By Col. Evans — We have never lost a tree from leaf curl. We 

 give all our trees wood ashes every year. For a bad case take lie, 

 boiling hot, made from wood ashes, and pour it over the roots, and in 

 ten days you will have a well tree. 



The following are the formulas given by Mr. Stedman : 



For peach and plum trees for biting insects — Arsenate of soda, 4 

 ounces ; acetate of lead, 11 ounces ; water, 100 gallons. 



Kerosene emulsion, for sucking insects — Hard soap, one-half 

 pound ; boiling soft water, i gallon ; kerosene, 2 gallons. Churn ten 

 minutes and add 19 gallons of water. 



For biting inspects, except on peach and plum trees, where yon 

 cannot use Paris green — Paris green, 1 pound ; fresh lime, 3 pounds ; 

 water, 50 to 175 gallons. 



Bordeaux mixture for spraying — Copper sulphate, 4 pounds ; fresh 

 lime, 6 pounds ; water, 50 gallons. 



Wednesday, 8 p. m. 

 Music — String quartette. 



HOW TO MAKE A LAWN. 



In its strictest meaning, a lawn is a stretch of grass around a 

 place, or intermingled with trees and shrubs; but in a broader or more 

 complete sense it embraces the trees and shrubs themselves. The 



