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John Almaii said that cayenne pepper mixed with flower or fine niidlings, 

 and dusted on with a pepper-box, was a remedy for the cabbage worm. 



J. D. Baldwin said he had no success with linseed oil for keeping off the 

 pear blight. 



At the June meeting J. D. Baldwin said mulching strawberries in winter 

 made them ripen somewhat later. He favored sandy soil. The Wilson is 

 still esteemed by him as a valuable variety. Woodruff's seedling No. 1 on 

 sandy soil, he considers very valuable. 



Kev. E. A. Spence spoke favorably of Crescent Seedling. It did better with 

 him than the Wilson. 



Jacob Ganzhorn said the location and soil has also much to do with the time 

 of ripening. High ground, he had observed, ripened the berries earlier than 

 low ground, and a sandy, warm soil favored early ripening more than a soil of 

 a colder nature. 



J. D. Baldwin then opened a talk on the raspberry, and spoke in high terms 

 of the Cuthbert. He commented on the great success his neighbor, Benjamin 

 Day, had achieved with this berry. Mr. Day made this his exclusive variety 

 for the market, and of which he has 5 or 6 acres planted. 



J. Austin Scott praised the Cuthbert. He also stated that now was a good 

 time to transplant raspberries. The Snyder blackberry he finds the most 

 hardy, and for that reason the best to plant. Mr. Scott also likes the Gregg 

 raspberry. 



Jacob Ganzhorn said he liked the Turner better for quality than the 

 Cuthbert, but had no doubt that the latter is the most profitable market berry. 



J. D. Baldwin here related his observation in regard to the Hill's Chili peach 

 reproducing itself from the seed. 



Mr. Scott said that some years ago he procured a quantity of Hill's Chili 

 peach pits and planted them. The peaches of these seedling trees, he 

 claimed, are richer, and in every way better, than those of budded trees. The 

 seedling trees all proved to be Hill's Chili in appearance, but somewhat better 

 in quality. He took some of these to Ohio and showed them to some of the 

 best fruit men, where they were pronounced of the best quality, and fine in 

 appearance. The seedling trees being hardier than budded trees, he believed 

 them superior for planting. 



In July Dr. Conklin's grease and sulphur remedy against the curculio was 

 inquired into. Emil Baur reported a decided failure with it. J. D. Baldwin 

 used up 50 lbs of the mixture, but with no success at all; others reported 

 likewise. 



Mr. J. A. Scott believed that the shaking process was the severest remedy 

 against the curculio. 



Mr. Baldwin stated that the sulphur remedy was a sure preventitive on 

 melons against the yellow-striped bug. 



Judge Page said that the severe cold winter followed by a severe dry spring 

 was very trying to fruit trees. 



The reproduction by the seed of the Hill's Chili peach was brought up again 

 and an enthusiastic discussion in favor of improving the peach by known 

 hardy kinds like the above ensued. 



Mr. Baldwin believed that after about eight generations with the Hill's Chili 

 peach, a variety would be produced hardy enough to stand the climate of 

 northern Minnesota. 



