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water and applied with a Holman pump or garden syringe. For 

 large orchards he would use the Field pump with the Dixon 

 spray nozzle. Cattle and other stock must be kept out of the 

 orchard until after two or three heavy rains have fallen. 



The "borer'- is easily destroyed by using an emulsion of one 

 pint of crude carbolic acid and one quart of soft soap, put into 

 two gallons of water. This emulsion should be applied to the 

 body of the tree with a brush, about the first of June. It also 

 kills the scale or bark louse and fungus growths and helps the 

 tree to endure the following winter. 



In this manner he went through the various tribes of the most 

 injurious insects, illustrating them with large drawings and 

 pointing out the best known remedies for each and advised all 

 fruit growers to interest their children in the study of insects 

 and train them to become familiar with their habits and trans- 

 formations. 



In our opinion this lecture, and a paper upon the same subject 

 read the next day by J. S. Stickney, were the crowning features of 

 the meeting and worth many times more to the state than the 

 small sum annually ajjpropriated to aid the society. Here we 

 would suggest that an effort be made to arrange with Mi-. Cook 

 to repeat the lecture before our Society at our next annual meet- 

 ing. 



Chas. W. Garfield occupied one hour of the afternoon session 

 and made a good talk on the subject, "How, When and Where 

 to Teach Horticulture." He is an enthusiast, and gained the 

 attention and admiration of the audience. 



The remainder of the program was fully carried out and there 

 was an increasing interest from the opening to the close of the 

 meeting and at the final adjournment everyone present pro- 

 nounced it the best meeting yet held by the society. 



I should like to give a further notice of the remaining papers 

 but the length of my report will not permit me to dwell longer 

 in this field, where I have been so well entertained. I must, 

 however, allude to Mrs. Hollister's paper upon "Life of Women 

 on the Farm, as it is and as it should be;" "The Ethics of Hor- 

 ticulture," by Mrs. Campbell. I heartily wish every farmer and 

 his wife in the Xorthwest could have heard them. I feel like 

 congratulating the Wisconsin society on their having enlisted 

 the co-operation of so many of their talented women in their 

 work. 



