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and previous to last winter, his orchards have suffered a good 

 deal of injur}- from the work of mice and he has been scratching 

 his head, and raising cats and everything else to find ways and 

 means of holding those mice in check. Well, as one result of 

 that he brought into my oflice not a great while ago a little box — 

 turned wooden box — which he worked up as being suitable for 

 the purpose, in which he has very neatly packed a preparation of 

 Paris green and Indian meal. There is a hole in the bottom of 

 the box, very neatly covered with a little coating of mutton tal- 

 low. Xow he says that the mice can't resist the temptation to 

 eat mutton tallow if it is round where they can get at it. More 

 than that, he says the odor of it is such that it will attract them 

 to it from some distance. He says that a mouse hasn't got to 

 do but very little work on that in order to get a full dose of the 

 poison. It will be on exhibition so that you can see it and ex- 

 amine it and Dr. Turner himself will be here to answer any 

 questions you may wish to ask him concerning it. 



GREETINGS FROM OTHER SOCIETIES. 



Prof. Maynard of Northboro, Secretary of the Massachus- 

 etts Fruit Growers' Association : — 



It gives me great pleasure to bring greetings from the Mas- 

 sachusetts Fruit Growers' Association. Massachusetts is es- 

 pecially favored in having a large number of horticultural soci- 

 eties. We have perhaps the most wealthy horticultural society 

 in the country, the Massachusetts State Horticultural Society, 

 and also another society very prominent and wealthy, the Wor- 

 cester County Horticultural Society. 



The Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Association was organized 

 some fifteen years ago by the working horticulturists. We have 

 no home — we move about wherever we are invited — but we have 

 an annual meeting at Worcester, the second Wednesday and 

 Tuesday of March, to which we should be glad to welcome any 

 members of the Maine Pomological Society or any friends of the 

 interests of horticulture. 



Our interests in Massachusetts probably are not unlike those 

 in Maine. The condition of fruit growing today is verv unsat- 



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