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water in which a little alkali had already been dissolved. See Annual 

 Report of the Missouri State Horticultural Society for 1887, page 232, 

 The Dr.'s prescription, applied from pumps costing $7.50 each, was tried 

 this year in our county, by several men, on large orchards, and the suc- 

 cess has been so marked that we, of Holt, have about lost fear of the 

 Codling Moth. The same medicine applied from the same machine will 

 easily and surely dispose of the Canker Worm, and probably of some 

 other pests. 



If events shall finally and fully prove that we have learned now so 

 to fix our trees as to be secure from rabbits, borers, and from the bad 

 effects of the direct rays of the sun, winter and summer, by the simple 

 device of wire-cloth, and that, too, at a cost of three to five cents per 

 tree, then we have made, not only a step, but a long run, on the road 

 that leads to successful apple raising. 



If spraying with a cent's worth of potash and arsenic to each bear- 

 ing tree is to rid us of the Codling Moth, as it clearly did when it was 

 tried here in the year 1887, it looks as if the time was at hand when we 

 might shout victory, and advance with confidence to the final rout of 

 other pests. 



I ask the attention of the members of our own, and of other State 

 Societies, of the public, and of Legislators, to the fact that Mr. Con- 

 don's invention for the use of wire-cloth, and Dr. Goslin's method of 

 making a proper solution of arsenic, both world wide as to their import- 

 ance, were given to the world through the medium of the Missouri State 

 Horticultural Society. 



It pays now. When the seasons shall have returned to their prop- 

 er balance, when the insects that vex the trees and mar the fruit shall 

 be under control, and when our only means of transportation, the rail- 

 roads, shall be willing to live and let live, then it will pay to raise ap- 

 ples in Missouri for the markets, not only of the United States, but of 

 the world. One half is in producing the apples — the other half is in 

 marketi7ig them. 



