PLUMS AND CHERRIES. 485 



Mr. Lord: 1 usually sell fifty to one hutKlredlxiHhel.s in the market. 



Mr. Wedfje: What do your plums net you? 



Mr. Lord: About $2.(X) a bushel, sometimes $1..")0. I had such a 

 demand for them at home, that I did not ship any away. 



Mr. Wedyft': How do you like the Hawkeye? 



Mr. Lord: It is a nice plum, but the <iuality is not very ^ood. 



Mr. Brackett: It is a verj- lar^e plum, is it not? 



Mr. Lord: Why, no; about as lar^e as the Cheney. 



Mr. Brackett: Those were immense they had at the state fair. 



Mr. Lord: They do better on clay g-round. 



Mr. J. W. Murray: I find no difficulty in destroying' the curculio 

 with Paris green spray. I have had good crops where I would not 

 have had anything if I had not used the spray. If you will give 

 them one or two sprayings, you will find it will prevent them. 



Mr. Richardson: How large was the young plum when j'ou 

 sprayed? 



Mr. Murraj': About the time the plum is the size of a small bird 

 shot. 



Mr. J. S. Harris: Perhaps I had better tell my experience in spray- 

 ing for curculio. I tried it on a few trees, and my experience was 

 a good deal like that of our friend Howell, of Wisconsin, in raising 

 raspberries; I came out at the little end of the horn. I lost some 

 trees by spraying with Paris green, and others were so badly injured 

 I do not know how long it will take them to get over it. The onl}- 

 real sure way I could recommend to any one is to jar the tree and 

 catch the bug and pinch him, or catch him in a sheet. 



Mr. Philips: How much Paris green did you use? 



Mr. Harris: I calculated to use about one pound of Paris green to 

 200 gallons of water. 



Mr. Cook: Did you spray before the leaves had come out? 



Mr. Harris: No, I sprayed after the foliage had started. 



Mr. Philips: Did it injure the foliage? 



Mr. Harris: It injured the foliage so it will take two or three years 

 to recover. The fruit hung on, but it did not ripen. I think I had 

 Cheney's with a bushel to a tree, but not a half dozen of them ripen- 

 ed, and the others that were not sprayed had good plums. I do not 

 want any more spraj'ing in mine. 



Mr. Philips: There is a family living at Ft. Atkinson -English 

 people by the name of Spry — and the lad)' told me her experience 

 was just the same as that of Mr. Harris. The)' had one tree which 

 they sprayed, and under the others the)' would spread a sheet ami 

 jar the tree and catch the curculios by jarring them off, and on the 

 tree they sprayed the curculios took all the i)lums, while the trees 

 they jarred had a good crop. They went to church one morning and 

 sprayed the tree before they went, and when they came home from 

 church they jarred the tree and caught thirty-two; and she says 

 that is the only way to secure plums, or the only way to guard 

 against the curculio, is to catch them and kill them. Sjiraying will 

 not do. 



Mr. Harris: That is my experience. 



Mr. Cutts. The only thing that troubled me is the plum pocket. 



