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was not so large as usual. As yet tliere is no remedy to prevent leaf 

 and lire bli,i,Hit. If an cfFectual one could be found the profits of pear 

 growing would be more than doubled. 



There was a good show of peaches, (seven entries") yet most of 

 thein were seedlings witli but very little budded fruit. It is here where 

 a great mistake is made. Why not grow a first class peach as well 

 as one that is second or third class? It costs very little to jjurchase a 

 peach tree or to bud a seedling when it is young, and those who will 

 take pains to get good varieties will be wellp aid fort heir trouble. 

 Peaches seem to be doing better than they have for a few years past. 

 If ])fc;tiches are planted on high ground that is dry, where there is a good 

 circulation of air, the tree well headed back every fall, taking care 

 not to feedthe tree too high and cause it to make a I'ank growth which 

 will not ripen before frost, and a constant look-out for the borer is 

 kept, I see vo reason why we cannot raise our own peaches and not 

 be obliged to depend upon the South for tliem. There was but one 

 entry of phi;iis. These were exhibited by J. B. Page, of Prescott, 

 Of hardy fruits none ai'c so scarce in our markets as the plum. The 

 two great obstacles in the way of growing plums are the black warts 

 and curculio. The fi)rmer it taken in season is easy to control, but if 

 it gets much of a hold on the tree, it is hard to overcome. The only 

 way to prevent a tree from being ruined by them, is to cut the warts 

 away as soon as they make their appearance an(' burn everytliing that 

 is removed.* The curculio begins its ravages when the tree comes in 

 flower and continues throughout nearly the whole season. This in- 

 sect lays its eggs eitlier in the flower or in the fruit after it is formed. 

 The worm as soon as hatched eats into the fruit and causes it to drop 

 when partly grown or lo rot before it is rip§. If one will examine a 

 plum that has fallen prematurely an incision the shape of a half moon 

 will probably be found on its side where the insect laid its egg. If 

 one will begin as soon as the tree is in full blossom and shake the tree 

 suddenly every day until the fruit is n:arly grown, burning all fruit, 

 insects and everything else that may be shaken off, a full crop will be 

 the result. The most economical way of gathering up whatever may 

 be sliaken off", is to make the ground under the tree hard like a floor, 

 removing the grass and sweeping up anything that may fall while jar- 

 ring the tree and burn at once. Or spread a sheet under the tree and 

 .shake everything into it. If plum trees are planted in a yard where 

 fowls are confined and the trees are shaken every day, the fowls will 



