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season the fruited cane is cut away and the new cane from 

 the lower wire is brought to the upper wire for the next 

 season's fruiting. 



Girdling grapes, to hasten their ripening was explained. 

 Grapes are thus hastened in time of ripening from one week 

 to ten days. It has been practised for fifteen years by Mr. 

 Wheeler of Concord, and is the only way that he can secure 

 his crop from frost in the fall, as his vineyard is only a few 

 feet above the river that flows near. 



Remedy for apple maggot or railroad worm, so called: 

 destroy all fallen fruit and pick all marketable fruit before it 

 gets at all mellow. 



Cold-storage houses with ice are used by Messrs. Hunt, 

 Eames and others. Drip was prevented by having ice on 

 slats and the water caught on sheet iron underneath. Mr. 

 Hunt used waste water for cooling milk. Mr. Hartwell be- 

 lieved that there was an outlet for all the fine fruit we can 

 grow. Captain Palmer would grow fruit in connection with 

 general farming. The farmer should have a good deal to 

 sell and considerable variety, that his income may be dis- 

 tributed through the year. Would advise young men to 

 plant fruit trees. Use them well and they will use you w^ell. 

 Intends to continue planting, not a few trees each year, but 

 several hundred. 



Friday — Morning Session. 



The closing day began with President Draper in the chair. 

 The report of the committee on gypsy moth resolution was 

 called for, and the following resolutions were presented and 

 adopted : — 



Wliereas, The committee ou agriculture in the Massachusetts 

 Legislature has under consideration the matter of an appropria- 

 tion for the extermination of the gypsy moth in this State ; there- 

 fore, 



Resolved, That we, members of the Massachusetts Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Association, in annual meethig assembled, earnestly request 

 that a liberal appropriation be made for carr^nng on the work, that 

 the ravages of this dangerous insect pest be checked. 



Resolved, That we recommend that the proper legislative commit- 

 tee be requested to take such measures as will enlist the co-opera- 



