44 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Prof. Maynard. Feed the apples to the hogs and cattle, 

 or make cider of them. 



Mr. Myrick. Mr. Augur spoke about paris green as a 

 remedy for the apple maggot. This insect is becoming a 

 most serious pest in a great many parts of the country. I 

 believe last year in Vermont it was exceedingly injurious. 

 Some experiments up there with paris green have been very 

 successful this year in protecting grape vines and orchards. 

 The vines and trees were sprayed, and the trees were not 

 only protected from the codling moth and the canker worm, 

 but were also rendered more secure from the attacks of the 

 apple maggot. Perhaps Mr. Augur might speak a little 

 more in detail upon that particular point. 



]\Ir. Augur. We have been very much troubled and not 

 a little alarmed about the depredations of the apple maggot. 

 Our tender-flesh varieties of early apples and some of our 

 fall and winter apples, like the Hurlburt, the Hubbardston 

 and the Fameuse, have been so badly infested that we hardly 

 dared to sell them, because the internal damage was so great ; 

 they appeared to be almost worthless. We have never 

 used, perhaps, insecticides so freely as this year, and not for 

 ten years have we been so exempt from the apple maggot. 

 I cannot prove that it is the efi'ect of the insecticides, but I 

 am strongly inclined to think so. Not one apple in fifty, 

 even of our tender-flesh varieties, has been troubled. I 

 cannot say that we have not found evidences of the ravages 

 of this insect occasionally, l)ut it has been very seldom, 

 whereas some years we have found it almost universal 

 among the tender-flesh apples. 



Mr. Myrick. Was it prevalent in neighboring orchards 

 or in other parts of the town? 



Mr. AuGUU. There are no orchards in our immediate 

 vicinity of much account, but it has prevailed among other 

 orchards in our town this year. 



Mr. CiiEEVER. I wish to ask about another trouble that 

 fruit growers are having, which is what is called, I think, 

 the apple scab. It is a disease that comes in blotches on 

 the skin of the apple and the pear and also on the leaf of 

 both of those trees. It increases after the fruit is harvested 

 and put into the cellar. It hurts the looks of apples and 



