62 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Thomas — Wild Goose needs a fertilizer. 



Mr. Durand — I have no trouble to get them to set fruit, but it al- 

 ways comes off before it gets ripe. 



J/r. Dalton — Dees the curculio Hy or crawl ? 



Mr. Goodman — He flies in the heat of the day. In the morning he 

 will drop and roll himself up. What have your trees paid you ! 



Mr. Dalton — Eighty-five Wild Goose have paid from $250 to $300 

 per year. They occupy about one-fourth of an acre. 



Mr. Goodman — I can not imagine how the gentleman gets any 

 plums at all with such close planting. 



Mr. Stark — The plum is of a social nature. Wild plum?j grow in 

 thickets. 



Mr. Speer — It wont do to depend upon chickens if you have only 

 a few plum trees and many curculio. I will plant quite thick and an 

 assortment of many kinds. 



Mr. Evans — If you will go into the chicken yard and jar them 

 down early in the morning the chickens will catch them. 



J/r. Viclntyre — I have succeeded in raising plums — more Wild 

 Goose than anything else — without catching the curculio. My Wild 

 Goose have not failed since the second year. 



Mr. Durand — Will the chickens eat the curculio ? Prof Eiley says 

 they will not. 



Mr. Demyning — The impression seems to be that whether we raise 

 one tree or a hundred the curculio will follow in the same proportion. 

 I thought a few years ago I had a remedy by smoking the trees every 

 second night with coal tar, but that has failed. 



Air. Bayles — I can't see why we should be content with the native 

 plums. They are growing the foreign varieties in New Vork state with 

 great profit, and why should not we do the* same thing? It takes but 

 two or three weeks, catching the curculio every morning, to insure a 

 crop. 



Air. Dalton — At what time does the curculio commence and how 

 long does he continue ? 



Afr. Thomas — As soon as the plum drops its blossom and as long 

 as he can punch the skin. 



