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Mr. Brouk had traced au attack of this Cabbage Bag from Kale to Cab- 

 bage, the Kale having beeu destroyed and but three plants accidentally 

 left. 



Mr. Osboru said that Mr. Gillette conducted his kerosene-pyrethrum 

 experiments nearly a year before his results were published, awaiting 

 confirmative evidence. 



Mr. Riley said that the great efficacy claimed for these combinations 

 of Mr. Menke and Mr. Gillette will not be borne out by further experi- 

 ment. Against the Boll Worm his agents hav^e not found them thorough 

 antidotes. 



The Association then adjourned. 



AUGUST 18, MORNING SESSION. 



The Association was called to order by President Fletcher at 9:30 a. m. 

 Thirty-four persons were present. The minutes of Monday meeting 

 were read and approved. On motion, a nominating committee, consist- 

 ing of Messrs. Boward, Weed, and Bruuer, was appointed. 



Mr. Weed presented the following notes : 



WORK OF THE SEASON IN MISSISSIPPI. 



By H. E. Weed, Agricultural College, Mississippi, 

 [Secretary's abstract.] 



There has been no one great outbreak the present season. Last year 

 stock was injured by the Screw Worm quite extensively, but the planters 

 are now treating with carbolic-acid washes and are lessening the dam- 

 age. The Cotton Leaf-worm and the Boll Worm are the principal in- 

 sect enemies of the State. The former is only just appearing and will 

 not be destructive. The Boll Worm was injurious last fall owing to 

 wet weather. JEgeria pyri occurs abundantly in apple trees, but not in 

 pear. Hippodamia converfjens he has proven to be an injurious insect, 

 as he has seen it feeding upon the leaves of cabbage. Moreover he has 

 poisoned with Paris green and killed the beetles. The Chinch Bug 

 occurs in the western part of the State on corn. The cabbage crop is 

 almost invariably destroyed by the Harlequin Bug and other insects. 

 The Plum Curculio is very abundant upon peaches. Cattle Ticks 

 [Ixodes hovis) are very abundant in the Southern part of the State. 

 The remedy in use is to feed the cattle equal parts of sulphur and salt 

 continously. 



The question of the action of the sulphur was brought ui) by Mr. 

 Fletcher and Mr. Marlatt, and Dr. Marx stated that the sulphur was 

 eliminated by the sudoriferous glands, thus bringiug it into contact 

 with the ticks. 



