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After being on tbe tree and sacking the juice for a few weeks 

 they leave the trees and migrate to the grass and stay there until fall, 

 when they migrate again to the trees and lay their eggs. 



When they appear, if you will spray with kerosene emulsion, I 

 think one emulsion will be enough, sometimes they require two ; or if 

 you have a large orchard and want to get through with one spraying 

 take pyrethrum and put it in your kerosene emulsion, and one spraying^ 

 of that nine times out of ten will prove sufficient. 



Mr. I want to say a word in regard to my experience with 



canker worms : I tried tying rope around and it did not seem to keep 

 them off, they would seem to paste that over with a sort of paste they 

 have and walk right over it; and I tried putting tin around, I had two 

 two inches wide around the trees and they would do the same with it,, 

 just paste it over, and walk right over it. And then I took cotton bat- 

 ting, the ordinary cotton batting that they use on quilts, I would open 

 that out and put the smooth side next to the tree and tie that around 

 in the middle and let the upper piece fall over, and they would try to 

 get over that but they couldn't do it. and they would get tangled in it 

 and would work here for two or three hours, then in the evening when 

 it would get cool they would crawl up under that and I have found as- 

 high as fifteen that way on one tree; it is a regular trap for them. 



The first we found were in January and we put that on them. 

 After the second year we did not have any trouble with them, that com- 

 pletely exterminated them. 



EEPORT OF SECRETARY. 



The interest in fruit-growing is on the increase sure and safe in all 

 parts of Missouri, more truly now than at any other time in her history. 

 The prospect for this year's crop is a good one— in fact, was never 

 better in the history of the State. The crop last year, although not 

 satisfactory in many particulars, brought a good many dollars to our 

 pockets. 



Seasons, times and surplus in the Bast destroyed the value of our 

 apple crop, and on top of it all came the failure of our cold storage 

 plants to properly keep the apples in their houses, all tended to lower 

 and destroy values, and thousands of barrels of apples were not only 

 lost, but cost their owners money besides, an anomaly in the history 

 of orcharding in the West. 



But, while last year the wet weather destroyed or injured our 

 strawberry crop so that it did not pay in many instances, yet this year 

 the cool dry weather has given an opportunity to market perfectly one 



