AND OTHER INJURIOUS INSECTS OF I907 AND I908. /I 



from untreated trees. This experiment was conducted against Codling 

 Moth, Plum Curculio, which in Minnesota is a worse pest on apples 

 than the previously named insect, and against Scab. 



A member of the State Horticultural Society has intimated that 

 what the fruit growers of Minnesota most need at this time is a short 

 printed article describing the most efficient all round compound for 

 their use, and how to make the same simply and inexpensively in small 

 quantities, and the proper times to apply it. 



Fig. -ifs. Two Martha Crabs in the same nursery row, the one on left sprayed several 

 times with Bordeaux solution; the right-hand tree receiving no treatment. 



It is evident that while we may have something approaching a 

 "cure all" (Bordeaux mixture and Paris green or arsenate of lead, a 

 combined fungicide and insecticide, comes the nearest to this), it can- 

 not do everything, and in a treatise dealing with this it would be mani- 

 festly unfair to the subject not to mention various other compounds 



