438 ANNUAL EBPOKT 



Finally, gentlemen, keep your eye on Nature's grandest works! 

 Hide not your light selfishly "under a bushel." Be not dis- 

 couraged in well doing, for even if our membership is small, 

 remember that "he that is faithful in few things shall be made 

 ruler over many." That man that acted faithfully as our secre- 

 tary for seven years, when the Society was no more prosperous 

 than now, is at present the secretary of one of the most prosper- 

 ous and honored state societies in the Union, with a membership 

 of one hundred and eighty of the most intelligent men in the 

 State. The man who was acting as private secretary to the gov- 

 ernor a short time ago is now governor himself. 



Some of you have attempted to change the plan of Nature, who 

 gives to nearly all our Minnesota wild trees a thick, pubescent 

 leaf, by ordering a large share of your trees from the South, 

 where they deal largely in thin-leaved plants, and are constantly 

 sending the same to you. They are capable of storing up moist- 

 ure enough to take them about half way through our summer 

 months — hence they die. To be consistent, order a pump that 

 will furnish you water for only half your stock. The leaves 

 pump water for all our plants and here in this arid clime they 

 must he large and thick. 



A. paper from Mr. Harris, who was appointed entomologist for 

 the society last year, was read, it being a most instructive and 

 pleasing one. He took for his subject the "Codling Moth," giv- 

 ing various methods for exterminating it. 



THE CODLING MOTH. 



By J. 8. Sarris, La Crescent. 



Mr. President and Members of the Olmsted County Horticultural So- 

 ciety : 



I noticed in the report of your last annual meeting that your 

 man — Sias — had attempted to perpetrate a practical joke on 

 you by having me elected as entomologist for your society. If 

 my life should be spared, I hope at some future time to get even 

 with him. He knows that I am not a professor of entomology, 

 and perhaps do not understand the nature and habits of the ma- 

 jority of the bug world any better than most of you. It is true 

 that I have put in a little time studying that chief of bugs, the 

 "humbug," and have always found that his feet were hot and 



