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management of that is indifferent. The soil is suitable, and the crops would be good 

 if better managed. 



Sept. 13. At the American Pomological Convention, Rochester, N. Y. ; repre- 

 sentatives from all the Loyal States, and some from Canada. 



The fruits on the tables were fine, and in great variety Pears, Apples, Plums, 

 and Grapes. 



By one who has not cultivated a propensity to seek out the blemishes in the 

 fruits caused by the insect enemies, most of those on exhibition here would have 

 been pronounced fine ; but upon a close examination by eyes like mine, where the 

 focus is fixed on defects, of the hundreds of plates, not one in twenty contained 

 fruits that were all sound. Three-fourths had Curculio marks, and one-half had been 

 more or less tampered with by the Apple Moth. 



I was speaking on this subject to a company of delegates from different sections 

 of country, when one from Wayne Co., N. Y., pointed to some of his on a table 

 near us, as all sound. This challenged an examination, when more than half were 

 found specked by one or the other, or both of these enemies. 



If these specimen fruits were so defective, showed such evidence of the ene- 

 mies, we may infer that those left at home, from which these were selected, were 

 much worse ; showing unmistakably that the time is rapidly coming when something 

 must be done, or all will perish when there is a thin crop to begin with, and most 

 that are left of the plentiful crops will be seriously blemished. 



But the mischief has now become so manifest that I found it easy to produce a 

 decided impression upon the delegates by some remarks I was called upon to make, 

 and many expressed themselves under great obligations for the information I had 

 given them. 



Sept. 20. Examined my worm traps again to-day. My previous accounts have 

 been chiefly of one tree, and on that one I found twenty-four more. This is an 

 Apple tree thirty inches in diameter, about twenty-three years old, and this year 

 having at first quite a full crop. It had been several days since my last visit, and 

 many of these worms had changed considerably in appearance, but the most of them 

 were of the bright red or pink color, and active when exposed. 



I examined several neighboring trees where no hay-traps had been applied, and 

 could find plenty of these worms, but none on the others except under the hay. 

 My good opinion of this mode of controlling this enemy is becoming more 

 and more confirmed ; and although new, I shall not hesitate to advise its general 

 use. 



