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scab, and it is desirable that information concerning the extent of the 

 injuries occasioned by the disease be obtained from your State. 



You will greatly aid this section in this work by answering, as far 

 as you are able, the following questions: 



I. What is a fair estimate of the annual loss occasioned by the 

 ■disease in your State? 



II. What varieties are subject to the attacks of the disease? 



in. What varieties are comparatively free from the attacks of the 

 scab ? 



IV. Does the character of the soil or atmospheric conditions in 

 •any way influence the spread of the disease? 



V. Do you know of any remedies that have been used with success? 

 Hoping that you will favor the section with the desired information, 



I remain, respectfully, 



Norman J. Colman, 



Cominissiotier. 



Discussioir. 



Mr. Brand. Mr. President, I will say that while I was in the 

 ■South I met the Rebel General French, and in conversation with him 

 he stated that when he was a boy they were troubled with the scab in 

 the State of Virginia; that in his father's orchard they tried the ex- 

 periment of boring a hole in the body of the apple tree, put in a quan- 

 tity of sulphur and then plugged up the hole; that, for years 

 afterwards the tree was never troubled with scab. 



Mr. Harris. If he had put the sulphur under the tree it would have 

 been still more beneficial. 



Mr. Dartt. I would like to know, Mr. President, if there has been 

 any instance of apple scab known in this State ? 



Mr. Harris. I have seen it on one or two seedlings and observed it 

 in my orchard the summer before last on my Strawberry crab. 



Mr. Dartt. I think I have seen it on apples that were brought in 

 from other states. 



President Elliot. For the information of some of the members it 

 might be well foi- you to explain what it is. 



Mr. Dartt. I don't think I can. 



Mr. Harris. It forms upon the fruit and takes a growth which 

 spreads if it is very bad until the apple will get as much out of shape as 

 those that are effected by the curculio. It has a vigorous growth, but 

 I have not seen it in this State far enough developed to cause cracking 



