IS THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF 



which should be sent to our friend, who happens to be secretary of 

 that body. What would our own people think if the Legislature or 

 the State Horticultural Society should offer an equally liberal -pre- 

 mium per capita for every little Turk captured? Wouldn't they set 

 about capturing them in earnest, though ! The Legislature might 

 stand it, and I am not sure but that some such inducement, held out 

 by the State to its fruit-growing citizens, would pay, and prove the 

 most effective way of subduing the enemy. But the Horticultural 

 Society that should undertake it, would have to be pretty liberally 

 endowed. Just think of it; ye who catch from three to five thousand 

 per day. The bugs would pay a good deal better than the peaches. 

 However, very fortunately for the Ontario Fruit-Growers' Associa- 

 tion, their good offer did not get noised abroad as much as it might 

 have been, and the little Turk occurs there in such comparatively small 

 numbers, that up to the time I left only 10,731 had been received. 



PARIS GREEN AS A REMEDY. 



Mr. G. M. Smith, of Berlin, Wisconsin, in an article written last 

 fall to the St. Joseph (Mich.) Horticultural Society, recommends Paris 

 Green for the Plum Curculio. Even if the uniform application of 

 such a poisonous drug on large trees were practicable, it would never 

 succeed in killing one Curculio in a hundred. Paris Green kills the 

 leaf-eating beetles by being taken internally with the leaves ; but 

 the Curculio, with its snout, prefers to gouge under the skin of the 

 fruit, and only exceptionally devours the leaves. Yet, notwithstand- 

 ing the palpable absurdity of the remedy, it has very generally passed 

 from one journal to another without comment. 



JARRING BY MACHINERY. 



Of course there is no more expeditious way of jarring down the 

 Curculio than by the Hull Curculio-catcher (Fig. 2.) Yet I confess 

 that after extensive observations in many different parts of the coun- 

 try I am forced to the conclusion that this machine does not give the 

 satisfaction one could wish. I have already shown that where it was 

 constantly used the trees suffered serious injury from bruising, and it 

 is a rather significant fact that in most orchards where it has been in- 

 troduced, some modification has soon followed, or else it has been 

 entirely abandoned ; while in the East they still adhere to the im- 

 proved stretchers and mallet. It seems to me that the machine, as made 

 by Dr. Hull, two years ago, was not only too heavy and unwieldy, but 

 incapable of giving the requisite sharp jarring rap to the branches of 

 a large tree without causing too much injury to the trunk ; and that if 

 a modification of it could be made to satisfy the peach-grower, there 

 would soon be a greater demand for such a machine. 



