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eral, I find it difficult to recall particulars with sufficient accuracy for 

 record. 



Tbe exhibits filled five good sized tables closely, and were gener- 

 ally quite creditable, though I missed nearly all the new candidates for 

 popular approval, and it was not very uncommon to find our familiar 

 marks of the Codlin moth on the best specimens. And I was pleased 

 to hear their delegate to your meeting mention with approval and 

 recommendation your i)lan of exhibits and awards. 



The exhibits must have been all arranged the day before, or very 

 early that morning, for all were ready and a goodly attendance in wait- 

 ting, promptly at the time set for opening the first session. My first 

 surprise was on l)eing called up, introduced and made an honorary 

 member, as representing our State and society. But when I called to 

 mind their generous love of their pursuit and their fellow-men, seeking 

 objects however humble to entwine themselves around, like the tend- 

 rills of a vine, I accepted the honor as gracefully, and perhaps as awk- 

 wardly as I could. 



One of the most generally interesting papers was by Prof. S. A. 

 Forbes, Champaign, detailing his experiments in sprinkling apple trees 

 with Paris green, against the Codlin moth, continued from last year. 

 The directions were to apply one and a half ounces of Paris green in 

 five gallons of water, when the ai)ples range in size from a small pea 

 to a hazelnut. If rains should occur soon after, it would be necessary 

 to repeat. I should prefer, and perhaps he said, lo apply as soon as 

 they reach the size of a pea, and again when the size of hazelnuts. 

 After the apples begin to hang downwards, exposing the basin around 

 the stem to catching and holding a quantity of the poison, there might 

 be danger of poisoning the apple, before that there is none. It was 

 suggested that stock had better be kept out until rains had washed off 

 the poison from grass and weeds, but some one's experience seemed 

 to indicate that the danger was small or none. By having selected 

 similar trees as checks in the experiments, the results indicated that 

 seventy per cent, of those that would have been strong were saved by 

 the two sprinklings. It is to be hoped that these experiments will be 

 continued from year to year. 



While the apple crop in central and southern Illinois has been 

 good — better than last year, and better than seemed then in promise, 

 the northern parts reported their trees dead, and their only hope 

 is to bridge the chasm with the hardiest varieties, top grafted on Du- 

 chess, Whitney, etc., until new seedlings or Russian importations offer 

 more encouragements. Adam-like, they try to blame somebody for 



