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would be well to have the legal protection removed. I would like to 

 know how to rid our town of them, anyway. 



Mr. Teuhner — Is the English Sparrow confined mostly to towns ? 



Mr. Goodman — They sometimes get numerous enough in the coun- 

 try to take a thirty-acre field of wheat in ten days. 



Mr. Follett — They will eat anything. 



Mr. Patterson — And they pick and damage a' great deal more fruit 

 "than they eat. A Robin and some other birds will take a berry and 

 •eat the whole of it. 



J/r. Follett — Make amotion to kill them. 



Dr. Gordon — Does the law protect them? 



Mr. Irvine — I think they would be included in the general law 

 for the protection of birds. 



Mr. Follett — -I move that this society recommend the repeal of the 

 law (if there be such a law) protecting the English Sparrow, and that i 

 Jbounty be offered for its destruction. Passed. 



DISEASES OF THE APPLE CAUSED BY FIT:n:GI. 



BY B. T. GALLOWAY, COLUMBIA, MO. 



Ladies and Gentlemen : As horticulturists you are doubtless 

 interested in everything pertaining to the cultivation of fruits and 

 flowers, and other products of the soil commonly known as garden 

 vegetables. I might have selected any plant which man cultivates for 

 food or ornament, and discussed its peculiar diseases caused by fungi. 

 Many, if not all, of our cultivated plants are subject to the attacks of 

 one or more species of parasitic fungi. The enemies of the apple are 

 exceedingly numerous ; so numerous in fact that we have often won- 

 dered how good fruit could be produced under the circumstances. 



No part of the plant escapes the ravages of these pests ; roots, 

 stem, branches, leaves, flowers and seed are alike attacked. More than 



