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accomplished. If we can learn an inexpensive method of destro3'ing, 

 for example the apple scab, it will be of much advantage to fruit 

 growers. This apple scab is working great injury to the fruit inter- 

 ests of Maine. 



Mr. Dawes. M}' experience in spra\'ing thus far confirms all 

 that Prof . Munson claims in the destruction of the codling worm. 

 The great difficulty is to find the mixture that will do the work 

 wanted without scorching the leaves. 



H. W. Brown. In our orchards the past season we have sprayed 

 with great success. A neighbor, whose farm is next to ours did 

 not spray at all. He had more than double the wormy apples we 

 had. He said we drove all the worms into his orchard. 



Sec'y Knowlton. While I am well aware of the important 

 results reached in spraying, at the same time I am in sympathy with 

 tbe cautions thrown out at some of our previous meetings. It 

 requires but little skill to use Paiis green successfully, but iliere are 

 few of us who in its early use have not injured the foliage which we 

 sought to protect from insects. Use it by all means if thereby you 

 can produce better apples, and I believe you can ; l)ut beforrf making 

 a general application be sure you know how viuch, or perhaps how 

 Utile is necessary to do the woik successful)}'. All the lime it is 

 being used it should be borne in mind that we are handling a deadly 

 poison, and that a mistake may prove fatal either to man or foliage. 



GRAPE GROWING. 



Henry W. Brown. The past season I have been in IMassachu- 

 setts on a small farm in Concord. There we have no trouble in 

 raising grapes successfully. In fact, for several weeks the past 

 season Massachusetts grapes were about the only grapes in the 

 Boston market. The vines are set in rows about six or seven feet 

 apart and about the same distance in the rows. Wires are fasteued 

 to posts or strong stakes for the vines to run on. The ground is 

 thoroughly cultivated between the rows, and bone meal and some 

 form of potash are worked into the soil. No winter protection is 

 given them. The vines are trimmed so as to make new wood for 

 the next year's crop, the new growth bting cut back to this. In 

 trimming a vine it should be borne in mind that it is the new wood 

 only that bears the fruit, so that tiie old wood after fruiting must be 

 cut out also. It is the practice witti Massachusetts growers now to 

 girdle the bearing wood about the first of July or a little later. The 



