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REPORTS OF STATE FRUIT GROWERS' CONVENTION. 



One of the most important functions of the office of the State Com- 

 missioner of Horticulture is to issue vital information to the fruit 

 growers throughout the State. To do this the legislature has appro- 

 priated a fixed amount Avhich can not be exceeded. The publication of 

 The Monthly Bulletin was a new departure by the present commissioner 

 and represents a considerable outlay of time and money. Adding to 

 this expenditure the special pul)lications, which demands make neces- 

 sary to issue, and the publication, also, of the proceedings of the State 

 Fruit Growers' conventions, it has become necessary for the commission 

 to make a new departure in the publication of the latter. It has been 

 decided that instead of publishing a regular convention report as here- 

 tofore, that the proceedings woukl be run in The ]\Iontlily Bulletin, 

 extending over a period of several months. For example, in this num- 

 ber two papers and the resolutions are included. All of the papers 

 will be published before the June convention. Inasmuch as the bulle- 

 tins are published in such form that they may be bound at the end of 

 the year and are thoroughly indexed, we can see no reason why the 

 plan as adopted will meet with serious objection. It allows of a greater 

 distribution of tlu^ re])orts, as heretofore only two or three thousand 

 were published, while The ]\Ionthh' Bulletin has a mailing list now of 

 nearly five thousand. — E. 0. EssiG. 



INSECT LARV^. 



In insects with complete transformations, or metamorphoses, where 

 the larvic are entirely unlike the adults, or imagoes, they take different 

 names and vary as to number of feet in the several orders. Beetle 

 larvcP, except Aveevil, which are apodous, have six legs and are called 

 grubs. Dipterous larvie are like weevils — apodous, or footless, and are 

 known as maggots. The larva? of butterflies and moths are called cater- 

 pillars and usually have sixteen legs, though one family, the measuring 

 worms (Gcometridce), has only ten legs, and some noctuid moths have 

 ten or twelve legs. All Innnenopterous larva? are footless, except saw- 

 fly larva?, which have eighteen, twenty or twenty-two legs. Though 

 footless these are never called maggots, but are, unfortunately, some- 

 times referred to as grubs. — A. J. Cook. 



DOES BORDEAUX PASTE CAUSE INJURY WHEN FOLLOWED 



BY FUMIGATION? 



In the past few years, since citrus gro^^ers have sprayed to some 

 extent with Bordeaux mixture for certain fungous diseases, it has been 

 noticed that if the spraying be followed too soon by fumigation with 

 hydrocyanic acid gas, the trees are more likely to be injured than those 

 not sprayed. The injury that results is from partial defoliation and 

 killing back of the small, twigs. This does not seem to be true in case 

 of lime sulphur spraying. It has been found that considerable defolia- 

 tion will result even though the spraying with Bordeaux has been four 

 to eight months in advance of the fumigation, especially when no rains 

 have intervened to wash off a part of the Bordeaux from the leaves. 

 The writer's attention was called to a case last fall where certain rows 



