EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 45 



Adrian, Mich., Dec. 3, 1888. 



The crop of small fruits in this vicinity was a light one, but quality was 

 good and prices ruled high — just about double those of the year before. The 

 cause of the light crop was the severe drought of the previous season. Those 

 who had kept their berry fields in a good state of cultivation during the dry 

 weather of last year had a fair crop with high prices, while those who had 

 neglected cultivation had no fruit as their reward. 



A good average crop of the standard varieties of grape was realized by those 

 who had kept their vineyards in a good state of cultivation. The weather of 

 the summer did not seem to be such as to cause the spread of mildew and rot, 

 hence but little damage was done to either fruit or vine. 



The crop of pears was a fair average and the quality was better than usual. 



The apples were perhaps two-thirds of a full crop. The quality of the fruit 

 was good where the orchards had been sprayed with the arsenites ; while the 

 fruit not treated so was very wormy and inferior. 



We may learn from the season's experience that cultivation should not be 

 neglected during dry weather, and that spraying fruit trees with the arsenites, 

 for the destruction of the codlin moth, is a success. The only serious diffi- 

 culty in the way seems to be in getting the practice made universal, so as to 

 prevent our neighbors from raising moths to destroy our fruit late in the 

 season or the next year. The following remedy is suggested : Let the fruit 

 growers of each neighborhood arrange with one or more individuals who 

 shall get the necessary outfit and spray all the fruit trees in the neighborhood, 

 for a reasonable compensation, just as the man who owns a threshing machine 

 now goes from farm to farm and threshes the grain. It is balieved that 

 few persons would refuse to pay a reasonable price for having this work done, 

 while not one in ten will get the necessary outfit and spray his trees at the 

 proper time. ^ 



Of the effects of the arsenites on the curculio I am not so sure, experiments 

 not all proving successful, as has been the case with the codlin moth. 



Yours, respectfully, 



D. G. Edmiston". 



SPRAYING PLUMS FOR CURCULIO. 



A questioner wishing to know how the arsenites operate in destruction of 

 curculio, on plums, Prest. Lyon said he thought some of the poison lodged 

 in the wound and killed the larvse. 



Thomas Wilde said spray of corrosive sublimate, such as he had already 

 described, will do the same and also arrest or prevent mildew ; but which it 

 kills, the larvae or the mature insect, or both, is yet a question. 



SOME FORESTRY TALK. 



Opening, with a short address, consideration of the topic, ''Forestry," C. 

 W. Garfield said he was more discouraged at the outlook as to forests than he 

 was a few years ago. He had thought the forests might be preserved by 

 promulgation of certain well known facts ; but it is clear that only the money 

 which comes from the cutting of lumber is now thought of, no care being 

 taken as to the future. He related an anecdote, a conversation Prof. Beal 

 and himself had with a man in northern Michigan who was about to cut the 



