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H. TV". Specking — Codling moth came out early, and a week of cold 

 -weather I think killed them ; spraying is usually over-done ; used too 

 ■strong and destroys the leaves and therefore injures the trees; think it 

 doubtful if it does as much good as harm; the arsenic injures the 

 leaves so much. 



C. H. Fink— A. maple- worm works on the under side of the leaves 

 and eats them up in many portions of Kansas; had 100,000 seedling 

 maples, and the worm took the leaves all off twice in one year; worm 

 i to I inches long, striped and bright colors; sprayed them once 

 and stopped their ravages, but three weeks later they came worse than 

 •ever; sprayed them again and cleaned them out again, but the trees 

 made no growth; moths appear about three weeks after the first, and 

 they are two or three brooded. 



Murray — Has sprayed two ounces arsenic to 100 gallons of water, 

 and went over the orchard twice or three times, and in comparison 

 with his neighbor he had only one to five apples injured to theirs; 

 should not be sprayed so the trees will drip, but if well done and at 

 the right time it is a grand success. 



L. Geiger — Says that if the trees are sprayed while in bloom will it 

 kill it ; has heard that it does. 



Answer — No. 



Early cabbage was entirely destroyed by a green larvae \ inch 

 long ; wants to know what it is ; a black fly with long wings, not iden- 

 tified. 



Chas. Patterson — Used the bandage and caught over 10,000 of first 

 crop codling moth, and yet they destroyed all his apples : then sprayed 

 with Paris green 7 ounces to 54 gallons of water ; sprayed with a Field 

 force pump; did it early and well done and exterminated the canker 

 worm, the codling moth and the raspberry saw-fly, but his trees were 

 so injured that they dropped all the apples. 



J. B. Durand — Sprayed his orchard, but did not have any success 

 at all ; sprayed for the canker worm but it did no good whatever ; they 

 seemed to thrive on it ; sprayed three times and yet it did not destroy 

 them. 



H. W. Specking— Care in spraying ; fouud on the hickory in Ore- 

 gon a fly or gnat so thick on the leaves that they killed the tree ; in St. 

 Louis found a bug eating the strawberry flowers ; found on the ever- 

 greens also a bug which ate up all the leaves so that they destroy the 

 trees ; the eggs are found in the pupie and hatch out as several broods. 



