SUMMER MEETING AT BROOKFIELD. 81 



For me, one acre of plums is worth eight of corn for my hogs, to 

 say nothing as a paying market crop. My cnrculio remedy so far has 

 been to jar the trees every day before the hogs are fed ; they follow 

 and eat all that fall to the ground. 



I want hogs and clover in an apple orchard when six to eight 

 years old, and in a plum orchard the third season ; by that time trees 

 can be pruned high enough to be out of the hogs' reach. We have 60 

 head of hogs in our orchard that haven't had corn for two months. 



The Vernon county horticultural society will meet at my farm the 

 first Saturday in July. They will bear me out that apples promise 10 

 per cent where plums are grown. As I wrote much for the last re- 

 ports, I will close by saying, hope you will have a very profitable time, 

 and we shall hear through the Rural World. 



THOROUGH CULTIVATION, WHAT IS IT? 



Turner — Continual cultivation with the double-shovel after plow- 

 ing, and then with shallow culture. 



R. Smith — Hold the soil in a porous condition, and do so by con- 

 tinual. stirring. 



C. Patterson — Uses a new kind of harrow, cutaway, with teeth like 

 a disc harrow ; break the soil often so that there is no crust. 



J. D. Bissell — Has a shovel and attachments ; can be put on any 

 kind of two-horse shovel plow. 



J. B. Laughlin — Shallow culture is what we want ; I can use any 

 tool if the ground is well prepared. 



NIGHT SESSION. 



Meeting called to order by President Evans. 

 An instrumental solo by Miss Belle Emery was well rendered. 

 The following was read by Miss Lulu Goodman, as Miss Whitney 

 could not be present: 



POMONA'S GIFTS. 



HATTIE WHITNEY, ST. LOUIS. 



[Read at the summer meeting ot the Missouri State Horticultural Society, 

 June 6, 1889. J 



Once in a cloudlet of airy fashion, 



Reclined Pomona, enwrapped in thought. 

 As she gazed with a brow of sweet compassion 



On the lands below, where the mortals wrought ; 

 H R — G 



