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from the Rocky Mountains to the Hudson for 1885-86 and '87. The 

 literal cooking of the pollen by the hot gale of last of April and 

 1st ol May, 18S7, and some years when the Codling moth destroyed 

 one-half the value of the crop. 



DO NOT EXPECT 



any one variety to do equally well everywhere in Missouri. The varie- 

 ties of apples already proven inside our state are very many. The va- 

 rieties known to be quite profitable in given places for the commercial 

 orchard numbers a dozen, or a score. A goodly number of seedlings 

 and of new apples that look well, and of which we have good reports, 

 have been shown at our state meetings. 



The distinct kinds of your soils are many, and the mixtures and 

 blendings of these have endless variations. The Loess, the Upper Coal 

 Measures, can each be found inside our bounds in perfection. 



The deposit that filled up the Great Lake, and the red lands, when 

 the outlying smaller lakes left their mud. Hill-top, slope, valley, on its 

 surface lies the varied material that is to give Missouri a greater range 

 of successful varieties than any other state. 



Now, we know something as to the soil or the exposure on which 

 to plant some particular varieties — there is much to learn. 



A few weeks ago I was among the splendid orchards of Mr. Durand, 

 of Bates county. Little wonder that the Jonathan is his pet, growing 

 from the deep, rich, black soil of a second bottom near the Osage river. 

 But do not expect to get such results if you plant the Jonathan on poor, 

 or washed land, or on the flint hills, where lead and zinc are the staple 

 products. 



CODLING MOTH, AND PESTS. 



At our State Society meeting, held at Lexington, December, 1886, 

 Mr. M. G. Condon, of Clinton, Henry county, Missouri, by letter to our 

 Secretary, Mr, Goodman, and read before the meeting, made the Socie- 

 ty, and so the public, a present of his invention of wire-cloth screening 

 — to be placed around young trees to protect them from rabbits, etc. 

 Alter two years careful experimenting here, we are, at least, very hope- 

 ful that it is an entire protection against rabbits, borers, and sun-scald ; 

 whatever sun-scald may be. 



Dr. Goslin, of Oregon, Holt county, at our winter meeting for 1887, 

 held at Boonville, gave a pycscription for dissolving white arsenic in 



