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dark colored Black Ben Davis which would be easily taken for Gano, 

 and which he said had grown upon one branch of a certain Ben 

 Davis tree — all of which showed it to be evidently a bud variation in 

 this case. 



The report of Mr. Pease from the Minnesota Society referred to 

 the use of Pyrus baccata as a stock for the apple. In commenting 

 on this Mr. Patten said that his experience had led him to believe 

 that we should go slow in using it. That some varieties would do 

 well on it for a few years and then fail. He said that in his ex- 

 perience he had found that the Wealthy did well on it, and he 

 thought the finding out of what varieties are adapted to it is very 

 important, and when we knew that we could perhaps use it to good 

 advantage. 



In the discussion of the best methods of preventing injury from 

 the codling moth it was stated that the codling moth "man from Mis- 

 souri, who has advertised his codling moth catcher, was without 

 honor in his own country, and that his claims were laughed at, one 

 of which was that the moths were so changed by coming in contact 

 with the kerosene of his catcher that the entomologists (in his opin- 

 ion) could not properly identify them. It seemed to be the general 

 consensus of opinion that banding of the trees should go with spray- 

 ing. These bands consist of burlap and should be put loosely around 

 the trunk of the tree, and the larva of the codling moth in coming 

 down the tree would very likely go through its changes under the 

 band. The method of destroying them was to remove the bands 

 every few days, drop them in scalding water and then run them 

 through a wring'er. 



The reports from the different districts seemed to show that as 

 yet there was little spraying attempted among the smaller fruit grow- 

 ers, although the larger orchardists were generally adopting it. 



One grower recommended the Cardinal raspberry as being 

 especially desirable. 



By the question box many interesting points were brought out. 

 In reply to a question, it was stated that the copper sulphate solution 

 in the proportion of i to 16 was very desirable for spraying apple 

 trees, before the buds start, for the prevention of apple scab. Ver- 

 mont apple seed was endorsed as being much superior in hardiness 

 and desirability to the ordinary French crab seed, and the trouble 

 with growing it, which has been experienced many times, is laid to 

 the improper attention which is given to it in curing, but where this 

 is properly attended to the seed germinate well. An improvement 

 in this respect has been noted the last few years. 



