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Hampshire and Vermont recommend the picking up of the 

 drops and wind falls or pasturing of the orchard with hogs, 

 &heep, etc., to consume the fallen fruit. We have one 

 entomologist in New York Avho claims that the best way of 

 fighting the railroad \Vorm is to spray the trees with mo- 

 lasses and arsenate of lead, and he is recommending this 

 method. Have you tried thatt It seems that in M'esteru 

 New York systematic cultivation of the trees and thorough 

 spraying of the orchards has exerted some influence on the 

 pest; if not, then why is not the apple maggot more in 

 evidence. 



THE CHAIR:\rAN: Suppose Ave call on :\Ir. Frost over 

 here for a discussion on this question and rest Prof. Parrott 

 just a minute. 



MR. FROST : I believe that the arsenate of lead is 

 helping to control the railroad worm and the reason they 

 ere not troubled with it in western New York is because the 

 spraying is so very general. I recommend, where I find it. 

 the destroying of the fruit on the ground and also very 

 thorough spraying of all the trees. 



THE CHAIR]\rAN : Is Prof . Wolf e in the audience? 

 Can you tell us about that? 



PROF. WOLFE: Why, I consider that the arsenate is 

 helpful in this way, it keeps the fruit on the tree. I think 

 that has a lot to do with it. not that it kills any of the in- 

 jects directly, but indirectly helps to get rid of them. 

 Prof. Jenks has done this work principally and he found 

 they did not get very definite results by using the molasses 

 solution and lead arsenate. I think one of the recommenda- 

 tions where a man has poulty is to keep it in the orchard. 

 T think with 200 or 300 hens to the acre they get pretty nice 

 results. 



THE CHAIR]\rAN : I heard :\rr. AA^est of Vermont speak 

 on this subject last year at the Vermont Horticultural So- 

 ciety Meeting. He had been quite successful in controlling 

 it and said his method was to spray in July with arsenate of 

 lead to which he added a gallon of maple syrup. I sug- 



