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Among the insect tribe, many are known to be night-flyers, 

 bent on mischief. Moths will pitch pell-mell into a light, when 

 presented to them in the blackness of night. The parent of the 

 core-worm being a little grizzly moth, I move, therefore, that 

 orchardists, next June or early in July, immediately after the 

 above named night-flyers make their appearance, do make, or 

 cause to be made, bonfires giving much light but little heat, at 

 different points in their several orchards, on some dark, lowery 

 evenings, keeping an eye to the same in order to ascertain 

 results, and report the same at a subsequent time. I have tried 

 the plan indicated, on a small scale, and seen the " varmints " 

 go in. 



Asa Clement, for the Committee. 



MIDDLESEX SOUTH. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Peaes. — The cultivation of the pear, until recently, was 

 confined mainly to* those who did not cultivate it with any 

 expectation of receiving a profitable return. Farmers who 

 have covered many acres with apple-trees, have been satisfied 

 with having one or two pear-trees on the farm, and have not 

 even taken proper care of those, and if they did not bear good 

 fruit have said there was no profit in raising pears. I,t has been 

 thought that pear-trees would only grow and bear well near the 

 sea-coast, but within a few years it has been shown that while 

 they may do somewhat better near the sea than they do in the 

 interior, they will do well anywhere in the State, if set in good, 

 soil and taken care of, and they are nearly as hardy as apple- 

 trees, and from the greater number of trees which can be set 

 upon an acre of land, and from the greater price of fruit, that 

 it is certainly as profitable for farmers to raise pears as apples. 



The dwarf has become a great favorite, and when set in a 

 deep rich soil, it is sure to produce a good crop. There are 

 some varieties of the pear which do much better and produce 

 larger fruit upon the dwarf than upon standard trees. Those 

 persons who have only a small garden can raise their own pears 

 and have a variety by setting out dwarf trees. 



Standard trees will grow upon more gravelly soil than dwarf, 



