298 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Thursday, 8 p, m. 



Mr. Atwood, of Greene County — I feel that I must say something- 

 of what the people of South Missouri are doing in the way of co-op- 

 eration. We shipped this last reason four hundred cars of strawber- 

 ries. We have thirty-seven associations all united in a larger associa- 

 tion. Every association has made money by cooperation. Without 

 co-operation the growers often lost. Twenty-one cars of strawberries 

 shipped from Peirce City netted $1.01 per 24-quart crate. In Arkan- 

 sas they have twenty-five associations, which are doing good work for 

 the fruit-growers. We are going to associate in the shipping of apples 

 and other fruits as well as strawberries. At times, before these as- 

 sociations began their work, some cities would have a glut and others 

 no fruit. For instance, eight cars of strawberries went to Pittsburgh. 

 in one day and broke the market. This we must avoid. 



What Mr. Bell said reminds me of another thing. The United 

 States Consul at Hamburg, Germany, informs our government that the 

 German farmers make the beet sugar themselves by cooperation. If 

 the farmers of this country succeed in making sugar they will have to> 

 do it themselves. 



Song. 



INSECTS. 



Let me give you a general talk about insects, with the hope that 

 you will take some of it home with you and learn something of insects^ 

 All insects lay eggs, with two exceptions, the San Jose scale and a^ 

 certain fly. These two never lay eggs. Insects are divided into two 

 classes. In one class ihe young resemble the adult, as the grass hopper ;; 

 in the other class the young have no resemblance to the adult. The 

 young of this class are commonly called worms, as the apple-worm. 

 We call them larvae. When the larvte is full grown it changes into a 

 pupa or chrysalis, from which it emerges at the right season. As to- 

 their method of feeding, insects are sucking or biting. Insects do not 

 change from sucking to biting, or the reverse. A biting or chewing^ 

 insect bites or chews in all its states, and a sucking insect remains a 

 a sucking insect in all its stages. The first thing you ought to notice 

 when an insect is troubling you is whether it is a biting or a sucking 

 insect. Upon this point depends the remedy for it. The sucking in- 

 sects stick their beaks through the tissues and suck the pure juices- 

 from beneath. So no poison will kill them, for they do not get theit 



