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work successfully. Let rue say just here that I found that all 

 those cranberry growers on the Cape who were using Paris 

 green were using it in the proportions of what they called 

 a teaspoonful to a pailful of water. I did not know what 

 "a teaspoonful" meant. I took a teaspoon and put it into 

 Paris green, heaped it up and weighed it ; then I took up a 

 teaspoonful, shook it a little, so that it would not be so 

 heaping, and weighed that ; then I took a teaspoonful, leveled 

 it off, and weighed that ; and either of the three was alto- 

 gether too great a proportion to a pailful of water. They 

 said it would burn the foliage, and for that reason they 

 refused to use it ; but it was because they used so large a 

 proportion of the Paris green. 



Mr. Hawkes (of Saugus). I have for twenty or thirty 

 years been a cultivator of the cranberry. I know that this 

 year there has been a very full crop of cranberries, and I 

 know from report that Paris green has been extensively 

 used ; I therefore infer that it has met with some good degree 

 of success. I have been able to control this fire worm 

 without the use of Paris green. I drown them out. I was 

 one of the first who studied out the history of this insect'. 

 I went onto the Cape and compared my observations and 

 experiments with those of others, and found I was right, and 

 that a good many people were completely in error in their 

 statements with regard to this insect. I have quite recently 

 made some experiments, and it will take but a moment to 

 tell you what they were. It was believed at first that the 

 miller, the parent of the grub, did its mischief only in the 

 spring of the year. It is now well known that they come in 

 the fall. I knew that that idea was put forward, and I knew 

 it was an error. I took some half dozen of my vines with 

 insects upon them, and put them under tumblers. It was 

 not possible that those vines could have been in the water. 

 Every one of the insects formed a miller in about two weeks' 

 time. I kept them until they died, and then I took them 

 onto the Cape and showed them. 



Now, the way I kill this worm is just simply by flow- 

 ing. Take the ground in the spring of the year, just 

 after they begin to hatch, when you think there is a pretty 

 good number of them, and put the vines under water from 



