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destruction of the feathered tribes it ivould not be long before we should pray 

 to be delivered from our friends. 



Mr. Tate : One thing is true of the English sparrow however destructive it 

 may be of grain crops. It never disturbs fruit of any kind. 



Question iVb. 2. Is there any way of restoring apples once frozen so that they can 

 be made available ? 



D. Woodward, Clinton: My experience has been so slight that I scarcely 

 yenture an opinion. I know of no practicable method of restoring frozen 

 apples. Still, I know that apples may be frozen and come out all right. This 

 was the case with some Talman sweets that I buried in barrels. They were 

 covered so lightly that it was certain that they froze solid, and when opened 

 later, after they had thawed out, they were as crisp as one could ask apples to be. 



Alvin Chapman, Bangor: I know of a case in which a large quantity of 

 apples in the barrels Avere frozen solid. The fruit was removed to a cellar 

 where the tliawing process would be exceedingly moderate. A few barrels 

 were opened and the apples shipped. In every instance where the apples were 

 removed from the barrels in which they were frozen their texture was destroyed. 

 All the others came out in good shape and sold at remunerative prices. 



Mr. Comings: You cannot make a rule. We do not understand enough 

 about it )'et to do that. In one case fruit frozen badly can be thawed out with 

 care and all saved. In another the same caution may be employed and every 

 apple lost. It is a matter for serious study and well worth, from a pecuniary 

 point of view, the most careful consideration. 



Question Mo. 3. Can we destroy the rose bug, and if so how? 



Mr. Edgell : I have tried every powder and lotion that has ever been sug- 

 gested and am as much in the dark as ever as to a successful remedy. The 

 insect is with us in large numbers. 



Mr. Lannin : Mr. A. S. Dyckman of our place fights the rose bug by 

 gathering and destroying them. He employs boys to gather them, and it is 

 astonishing how many he has thus destroyed. A smart boy has been known to 

 get as high as four quarts of them per day. Mr. Dyckman saved his grapes 

 by pursuing this method. One thing is quite noticeable, that the rose bugs 

 gather where the curculio has made its puncture. These insects may be 

 gathered in the same way as the curculio, by the sheet method if the weather 

 be cool. 



D. Woodward : I have tried London purple thoroughly and without success 

 in fighting this insect. 



President Lyon : Mr. Bailey of our place declares that London purple will 

 have no more effect on them tlian so much dust or flour. 



Question JVo. 4. What varieties of strawberries are planted here and in what 

 proportions? 



Mr. W. A. Brown: In southern Berrien, as I think here, nineteen-twen- 

 tieths of tlie crop are Wilsons. A large number of other varieties have been 

 tried, but unsuccessfully as far as market is concerned. 



Mr. Edgell : About South Haven the Wilsons predominate, but there are 

 some quite large plantations of Captain Jack, Crescent, Jucunda, and Sharp- 

 less. 



A voice : We have yet to find a strawberry for Chicago distributing market 

 to take the place of the Wilson. 



