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J. S. Harris: I was sent to his place to look it over, and I 

 had access to his books, and he took me through the station 

 and private office and he has everything in apple pie order. 

 His books show a good system, and I believe he is the right 

 man in the right place, and he ought to have salary enough to 

 enable him to enlarge the work and carry it on to its final end. 



L. H. Wilcox: I would like to ask Mr. Dartt in reference to 

 what he says of cutworms, whether he considers that heavy 

 manuring produces an extra heavy crop of cutworms ? 



E. H. S. Dartt: That is my impression. 



Pres. Elliot: If manuring facilitates the production of cut- 

 worms I hope you will all adopt his method of catching them 

 by laying a leaf or anything green on the ground so they can 

 crawl under the shade. I have used that very effectively in my 

 garden and I cannot catch my cutworms in any other way. 



L. H. Wilcox: Has anyone ever tried Paris Green? 



R. P. Lupton: I have not, but somebody told me a year ago 

 that if I sowed some salt on my ground it would kill cutworms. 

 I am willing to try almost anything, so I tried that. I tried it 

 in my melon patch, and I came to the conclusion it was the best 

 thing to raise cutworms I ever tried. I was determined I would 

 not be beaten, so I took tarred paper and cut it into strips 

 about twelve inches long and three inches wide. I then went 

 all over my melon patch to find the worms. After I got 

 through I took those bits of tarred paper and put them right 

 down around the hills, sticking them in the ground about one- 

 half their width, and that is the way I saved my melon patch. 

 I did not lose one plant out of fifty. 



Geo. J. Kellogg: I have been looking over friend Dartt's 

 list of apple trees to find his best varieties, and he has only 

 three, one the Duchess of Oldenburg. Here are two more pages 

 of varieties, and where is the coming apple? 



Prof. Green: He has just told us he did not know what it 

 was yet. 



E. H. S. Dartt: Now that list is a large one, and most of 

 those varieties we know nothing about, how then could I pick 

 out and say which was the best? But those that I have marked 

 I do know something about. I expect the coming apple may 

 be in one of those forty-four varieties that I have entered "A" 

 to "M", and from "AA" to ' A.Q". There are forty-four varie- 

 ties of seedlings that I have grafted and marked and it may be 

 in that list. 



